Musical Quotes - Page 4

• You are the music while the music lasts.

  T. S. Eliot

  Music, Dope, Jazz And Life

  Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)

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• Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Home, Privacy, Wells

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• The devil doesn't stay where there is music.

  Martin Luther

  Devil, Doe, Music Is

  "Conversations with Luther: Selections from Recently Published Sources of the Table Talk".

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• With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Expression

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Kandinsky”, p.59, Parkstone International

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• Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Music, Dream, Peace

  Entry for March 17, 1870, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

  Louis Armstrong

  Funny, Music, Song

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 7 July 1971

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• It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Music, Keys, Play

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• Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Writing, Thank God

  Letter to Ferdinand Ries, 20 Dec. 1822

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• Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Music, Dance

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

  Benjamin Britten

  Strength, Music, Beauty

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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, Music

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

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• Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

  William Congreve

  Inspirational, Music, Rocks

  1697 Almeria to Leonora. The Mourning Bride, act 1, sc.1.

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• My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Music, Witty

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• Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Guitar, Self

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• Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Music, Lonely, Loneliness

  Lawrence Durrell (1961). “Clea”

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• Music fills the infinite between two souls.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Music, Wisdom, Two

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

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• No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny, Music, People

  Quoted in Time, 29 Dec 1961.

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• I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

  Bing Crosby

  Music, Country, Thinking

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• In opera, there is always too much singing.

  Claude Debussy

  Funny, Music, Piano

  "Debussy". Book by Paul Holmes, 1989.

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• The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

  Duke Ellington

  Inspiring, Music, Wise

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• It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

  Steve Jobs

  Music, Online, Stores

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.68, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

  Slash

  Music, Jazz, Explosions

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• The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

  George Steiner

  Life, Music, Fashion

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• Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Song, Errors

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

  Henri Rabaud

  Music, Country, Museums

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