Music And Life Quotes

• For me, music and life are all about style.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Style, Jazz And Life

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1989). “Miles, the autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Eye, Heart

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• I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Music, God

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• Music does bring people together.
  It allows us to experience the same emotions

  John Denver

  Music, People, Together

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• Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

  Janis Joplin

  Love, Music, Emotional

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• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

  John Muir

  Cells, Tree, Incense

  John Muir (2013). “John Muir: Spiritual Writings”, p.64, Orbis Books

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• People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.

  Bill Murray

  Music, Truth, Honesty

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• You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.

  Jerry Garcia

  Life, Music, Power

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• It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

  Marcus Miller

  Inspirational, Music, African American

  Interview with Eva Simontacchi, www.jazzitalia.net. April 10, 2005.

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• Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

  Yanni

  Life, Motivational, Music

  Yanni (2003). “Yanni in Words”

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• I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.

  Zachary Levi

  Music, Dance, Song

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• We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.

  Merle Haggard

  Life, Music, Hope

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• I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

  Syd Barrett

  Music, Song, Stars

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.

  Robert Lawson Shaw

  Music, Luxury, Focus

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• Some people have lives; some people have music.

  John Green

  Life, Music, Real

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.28, Penguin

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• If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Music, God

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from May 11, 2015

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• Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Attributed to Ludwig van Beethoven by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe (May 28, 1810), as quoted in Bettina von Arnim "Goethe's Correspondence with a Child", 1835.

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Music, Angel

  Thomas Carlyle (1888). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)”

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• An instant family classic that is utterly unique but reminiscent of films like 'E.T.,' 'Sound of Music' and 'Life Is Beautiful.'

  Mark Burnett

  Beautiful, Unique, Sound

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• Music gives a soul to the universe.

  Plato

  Music, Wings, Giving

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• Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.

  John Denver

  Music, Heart, Expression

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• Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Music, Beautiful, Life Is Like

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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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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