Music Quotes

• Where words fail, music speaks.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Inspirational, Art, Guitar

  Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”

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• One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

  Bob Marley

  Funny, Wisdom, Song

  Song: Trenchtown Rock

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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

  Heart, Expression, Color

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• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Philosophy, Thinking, Soil

  Ludwig Van Beethoven, John Trie (2017). “Ludwig Van Beethoven for Classical Guitar - Tablature: Arranged for Guitar by John Trie”, p.36, BoD - Books on Demand

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• Music is the medicine of the mind.

  John Logan

  Health, Healing, Medicine

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  If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Determination

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.12, St. Martin's Press

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  Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

  Stevie Wonder

  World, Language, Wonder

  Song: Sir Duke, 1976

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• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Art, Healing

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Inspirational, Art, Piano

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  I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Mistake, Guitar, People

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

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Eye, Heart, Men

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

  Plato

  Plato, Soul, Sound

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  What we play is life.

  Louis Armstrong

  Inspirational Life, Live Life, Passion

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Motivational, Wisdom, Thinking

  Music at Night (1931) p. 17

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  Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

  Robert Browning

  Solitude, Inspirational Music, Musical

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

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• Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

  Sarah Dessen

  Peace, People, Common

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.96, Penguin

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• Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Light, Heaven, Spirit

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• Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Atmosphere, Spirit, Worship

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• Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

  Frank Zappa

  Clouds, Air, Wind

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.

  Stephen Gaskin

  Love, Expression, Loving Someone

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• Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

  Joseph Addison

  Religious, Indulge In, Feelings

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• Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspirational, Dream, Art

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

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• When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.

  John Coltrane

  People, Desire, Jazz

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