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• Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Piano, Feelings, Speech

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

  Sergei Rachmaninoff

  Inspirational, Jazz And Life, Piano Keys

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• Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

  Marvin Minsky

  Personal Knowledge, Listening, Listeners

  "Music, Mind, and Meaning". Computer Music Journal, Vol. 5, Number 3, web.media.mit.edu. Fall 1981.

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  I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

  Adele

  Eye, Ears, Rock N Roll

  "Adele Opens Up About Her Inspirations, Looks and Stage Fright", www.rollingstone.com. April 28, 2011.

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• My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

  John Coltrane

  Spiritual, Expression, Jazz

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• Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Men, Mind

  1593 Lucentio to Hortensio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 3, sc.1, l.9-12.

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• It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

  Albert Einstein

  Discovery, Perception, Intuition

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• Where words leave off, music begins.

  Heinrich Heine

  Inspirational Music, Music And Life, Musician

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• Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Piano, Soul, Spirit

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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Secret, Language

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• If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

  Gustav Mahler

  Funny, Expression, Piano

  Letter to Max Marschalk, March 26, 1896.

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• There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Prayer, World

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• I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Thinking, Bars, Understood

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• A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Inspirational, Art, Silence

  Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.

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• Music is the universal language of mankind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Appreciation, Teacher, Art

  1835 OutreMer. Also attributed to Christopher North (1865-1954).

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• Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Laughter, Reality, Voice

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• Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

  Marcel Marceau

  Funny, Silence, Done

  US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.

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• Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

  Miles Davis

  Play, African American, Jazz And Life

  "SPIN" Magazine, (p. 30), December 1990.

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• Music gives color to the air of the moment.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Air, Color, Giving

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• I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

  Duke Ellington

  Art, Opportunity, Acting

  "The Best of the Music Makers". Book by George Thomas Simon, 1979.

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• If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

  James M. Barrie

  Teach, Ifs

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Tommy And Grizel (Annotated Edition)”, p.91, Jazzybee Verlag

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  Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Dance, Art

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• In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.

  Anais Nin

  Passing, Feels, Passings

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