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  Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Lonely, Loneliness

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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• Music is the strongest form of magic.

  Marilyn Manson

  Magic, Form, Strongest

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• The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

  Pete Townshend

  Mind, Opening, Halfway

  "Pop Chronicles", Show 23, digital.library.unt.edu. May 02, 1968.

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• Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.

  George Gershwin

  Jazz Hands, Cool Jazz, Jazz And Life

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

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• Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

  Confucius

  Wisdom, Art, Healing

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• It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Matter, Spirit, Select

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• Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Law, Knowing

  1974 Interview in Paris Review, Summer.

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• Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wisdom, Race, Voice

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• Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

  Maria von Trapp

  Heart, Keys, Magic

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• Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

  Herbie Hancock

  Art, Language, Form

  FaceBook post by Herbie Hancock from Nov 19, 2015

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• In memory everything seems to happen to music.

  Tennessee Williams

  Memories, Menagerie, Recollection

  Tennessee Williams (1999). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

  Billy Joel

  Healing, Matter, Culture

  Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.

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  I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

  Billy Joel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Healing

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Aug 19, 2013

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• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Healing

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Dance, Men

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 13, 1595.

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• Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

  Martin Luther

  Beautiful, God, Art

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• Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

  Johnny Depp

  Rock N Roll, Inspirational Music, Power Of Music

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

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• Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.57, Samuel Butler

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• Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

  Maya Angelou

  Dance, Earth Day, Wealth

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 25, 2011

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• Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

  Jean Paul

  Funny, Night, Jazz And Life

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• Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

  Pat Conroy

  Journey, Desert, Jazz

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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  Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Greatest Treasure, Noble

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• Music should always be an adventure.

  Coleman Hawkins

  Travel, Adventure, Jazz

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• When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fear, Failure, Carpe Diem

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

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