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• After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

  Aldous Huxley

  Motivational, Music, Wisdom

  Music at Night (1931) p. 17

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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

  Benjamin Britten

  Strength, Music, Beauty

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• Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

  Paul Simon

  Wisdom, Dope, Forever

  "Raffi: Advocate for Children, Earth and Music". Interview with Marilyn Price-Mitchell, www.rootsofaction.com. August 2014.

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

  Benjamin Britten

  Music, Beautiful, Musical Life

  Benjamin Britten (2011). “Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten”, Faber & Faber

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• Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

  Robert Browning

  Music, Solitude, Musical

  Robert Browning, William Lyon Phelps (1910). “Robert Browning's complete works”

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  Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

  Plato

  Music, Plato, Soul

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• Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

  John Philip Sousa

  Music, Feet, Free Jazz

  John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.52, A-R Editions, Inc.

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• I was born with music inside me

  Ray Charles

  Musical Life, Musician, Ribs

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

  Langston Hughes

  Life, Music, Death

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.251, University of Missouri Press

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• Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Life, Song

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from May 11, 2011

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• There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music

  Robert Browning

  Music, Men, Piano

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.357, Wildside Press LLC

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• I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

  William Faulkner

  Music, Mean, Trying

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• If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

  Sydney Smith

  Music, Earth, Rapture

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• You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)

  Oscar Levant

  Music, Trying, Movement

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• All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

  Louis Armstrong

  Funny, Music, Song

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 7 July 1971

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• There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

  William Cowper

  Music, Heart, Air

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.136

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• We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Inspirational, Music, Dream

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• The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Funny, Music, Joy

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• It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

  Nick Hornby

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.128, Penguin

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• The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

  Duke Ellington

  Inspiring, Music, Wise

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• Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Men, Piano

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

  Edgar Winter

  Music, Spiritual, People

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• And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Night, Poetry

  "The Day Is Done" st. 11 (1844)

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• Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

  Anais Nin

  Together, Body, Separation

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