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• If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

  Levon Helm

  Work, Heart, Drummer

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• Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

  Robert Fripp

  Wisdom, Wine, Silence

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• Music fills the infinite between two souls.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Wisdom, Two, Soul

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.259, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Piano, Different, Breaths

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspiring, Angel, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.325

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• When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fear, Danger, Inspirational Music

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

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• To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

  Aaron Copland

  Time, Would Be, Stopping

  Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”

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• My aim is just to make good music every single time.

  Lil Wayne

  Aim

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• The only truth is music.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Inspirational Music, Truth Is

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

  Bob Marley

  Stupid, Forever, Rasta

  Bob Marley (2012). “Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution”, Open Road Media

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• Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Granted

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• When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

  E. W. Howe

  Piano, People, Singing

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• Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hearing, Intermittent, Perpetual

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• Music creates order out of chaos.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Order, Continuity Of Life, Chaos

  "Symboles Dans la Vie Et Dans L'art". Book by George Whalley, p. 29, 1987.

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• Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Secret, Who We Are, Wonder

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Unrequited Love, Romantic Love

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

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• Music is the greatest communication in the world.

  Lou Rawls

  Communication, World, Jazz

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• Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Secret, Way

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• My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Sick, Weary Heart

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• Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Mad, Would Be, Reason

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• Music can change the world because it can change people.

  Bono

  Inspirational, Change, People

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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, Power, Magic

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• The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

  Bobby Hutcherson

  Jazz, Swept Away, Magical Moments

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• Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

  Martin Luther

  Wisdom, Art, Prophet

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• Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

  Henry Miller

  Beautiful, Opiates, Literature

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, [New York] : New directions

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