 | Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. -- Alphonse de Lamartine |
 | The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides! -- Artur Schnabel |
 | A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anon |
 | If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud. -- Anonymous |
 | Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -- Berthold Auerbach |
 | I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. -- Billy Joel |
 | I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time. -- Bonnie Raitt |
 | Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. -- Charlie Parker |
 | Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. -- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
 | It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit—enable them to see visions and dream dreams. -- Eric Anderson |
 | Remember, information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth; truth is not beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music; music is the best. -- Frank Zappa |
 | Without music life would be a mistake. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
 | True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today. -- George Gershwin |
 | If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. -- Gustav Mahler |
 | I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. -- H.A. Overstreet |
 | Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. -- Helmut Walcha |
 | Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both. -- Henri Frederic Amiel |
 | We listen to great music and know that all our joys and sorrows are part of something beyond our comprehension – and so indefinitely valuable. -- Jesse O’Neill |
 | Music is the key to the female heart. -- Johann G. Seume |
 | Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below. -- Joseph Addison |
 | Music isn't just learning notes and playing them. You learn notes to play to the music of your soul. -- Katie Greenwood |
 | Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. -- Leigh Hunt |
 | This will be our response to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully and more devotedly than ever before. -- Leonard Bernstein |
 | Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. -- Maya Angelou |
 | Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
 | Without music, life is a journey through a desert. -- Pat Conroy |
 | Music education is imperative for anyone to grow up complete...Without the arts - including music - we risk graduating young people who are 'right brain damaged'. -- Paul Harvey |
 | The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. -- Richard Baker |
 | To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. -- Robert Schumann |
 | Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. -- Victor Hugo |
 | Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. -- William F. Buckley, Jr. |
 | If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing. -- Zimbabwe Proverb |
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