Without Music Quotes

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

  Pat Conroy

  Music, Journey, Desert

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

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• Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Heart, Special, Would Be

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

  Confucius

  Music, Wisdom, Art

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• Life without music is no life at all.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music Is, Life Without Music

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• Without music the world will still turn, but it won't rock.

  Fran Drescher

  Rocks, World, Turns

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• Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Time, Bills

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• The universe without music would be madness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Would Be, Madness, Universe

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• Without music, life would be a blank to me.

  Jane Austen

  Music, Would Be, Blank

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.236

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• There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Spiritual, Soul, Life Without Music

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• Without music, life would be a mistake.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Music, Mistake

  1889 Die Go« tzen-Da«mmerung ( Twilight of the Idols, translated by R J Hollingdale)

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• I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Home, Imagine, Happy Home

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• Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Life Is, Academic, Music Is

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• Music is one of my greatest loves. I don't think I would be able to live without music in my life.

  Naya Rivera

  Thinking, Greatest Love, Would Be

  FaceBook post by Naya Rivera from Apr 12, 2013

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• What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Mean, Doe

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• I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that.

  Dionne Warwick

  Grateful, World, Incredibles

  "Dionne Warwick: Living for Now". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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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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• Life without music is unthinkable.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music Is, Life Without Music, Unthinkable

  Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor

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• I can't imagine my world without music. It's the universal language; what I make comes from my heart. What I listen to from others stirs it.

  David Guetta

  Heart, World, Language

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Life without music would be an intolerable insult.

  Edward Abbey

  Would Be, Insult, Life Without Music

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• It's just seems life without music would be death.

  Trevor Hall

  Would Be, Life Without Music, Seems

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• Music is everything; without it, we [people] are nothing. We're just living vibrations of molecular tinglings, and without music we'd explode into nothing and go down a quantum hole.

  Ron Rothfield

  People, Vibrations, Holes

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• I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.

  Charles Kennedy

  Hate, Mean, Track

  "Charles Kennedy" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2005.

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• Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Delight, Drink, Exaggeration

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• Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Effort, Goes On

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1203, Wordsworth Editions

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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

  Music, Piano, Feelings

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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