Discover the
phenomenonal complexity of music and reflect on the
way it can positively influence your life with this
sound collection of riveting quotes...
1. "Music,
the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven
we have below."
-- Joseph Addison
2.
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the
space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
--Maya Angelou
3.
"Music is either good or bad, and it's got to
be learned. You got to have balance."
-- Louis Armstrong
4.
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of
everyday life."
-- Berthold Auerbach
5.
"The aim and final end of all music should be
none other than the glory of God and the refreshment
of the soul."
--Johann Sebastian Bach
6.
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual
and the sensual life."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven
7.
"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the
higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind
but which mankind cannot comprehend."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven
8.
"Music can change the world. "
-- Ludwig Van Beethoven
9.
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate
the unknowable."
-- Leonard Bernstein
10.
"Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to
play it live. "
-- James Brown
11.
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
-- Thomas Carlyle
12.
"All music comes from God."
-- Johnny Cash
13.
"If you learn music, you'll learn most all there
is to know."
-- Edgar Cayce
14.
"Music is nothing separate from me. It is me...
You'd have to remove the music surgically."
-- Ray Charles
15.
"Good music is good no matter what kind of music
it is."
-- Miles Davis
16.
"There is no feeling, except the extremes of
fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."
-- George Eliot
17.
"You are the music while the music lasts."
--T. S. Eliot
18.
"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
19.
"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens
the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."
-- Kahlil Gibran
20.
"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick
for something they never had and never will have."
-- Edgar Watson Howe
21.
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and
on which it is impossile to be silent."
-- Victor Hugo
22.
"The history of a people is found in its songs."
-- George Jellinek
23.
"Music is the vernacular of the human soul."
-- Geoffrey Latham
24.
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the
music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
-- Walter J. Lippmann
25.
"Just as certain selections of music will nourish
your physical body and your emotional layer, so other
musical works will bring greater health to your mind."
-- Hal A. Lingerman
26.
"Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an
echo of the invisible world."
-- Giuseppe Mazzini
27.
"Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take
it too seriously."
-- Henry Miller
28.
"I started making music because I could."
-- Alanis Morissette
29.
"Music helps you find the truths you must bring
into the rest of your life."
-- Alanis Morissette
30.
"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."
-- Van Morrison
31.
"Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming,
and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and
laws are used by intelligent man for the production
of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and
thought."
-- Theodore Mungers
32.
"Without music life would be a mistake."
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
33.
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
34.
"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts,
your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out
of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line
to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
-- Charlie Parker
35.
"Music should be something that makes you gotta
move, inside or outside."
-- Elvis Presley
36.
"It's the music that kept us all intact, kept
us from going crazy."
-- Lou Reed
37.
"The music business was not safe, but it was
FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you
know is bad for you, but you love every minute with
her, anyway."
-- Lionel Richie
38.
"Music should never be harmless."
-- Robbie Robertson
39.
"Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music."
-- Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
40.
"All music is important if it comes from the
heart."
-- Carlos Santana
41.
"Music is the key to the female heart."
-- Johann G. Seume
42.
"The best music... is essentially there to provide
you something to face the world with."
-- Bruce Springsteen
43.
"All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful
to me, that has commitment and passion behind it."
-- Bruce Springsteen
44.
"In music one must think with the heart and feel
with the brain."
--George Szell
45.
"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
46.
"For heights and depths no words can reach, music
is the soul's own speech."
--Unknown
47.
"Most of us go to our grave with our music still
inside of us."
--Unknown
48.
"I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't
just a fad. This is a positive thing."
-- Eddie Vedder
49.
"Music at its essence is what gives us memories."
-- Stevie Wonder
50.
"There's a basic rule which runs through all
kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't
know what it is. But I've got it."
-- Ron Wood
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