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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 comprehend mankind But which mankind can not 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 express that which can not be said and on impossile Which is it to be silent.”
- Victor Hugo
22. “The history of a people is found in its songs.”
- Georg 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 do not 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 do not live it, it will not 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 is not 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 do not know what it is. But I’ve got it.”
- Ron Wood
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~ Leopold Stokowski

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~ Berthold Auerbach

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song, as if all the rest were to wrappages and hulls! ~ Thomas Carlyle

If the King loves music, it is well with the land. ~ Mencius

Without music life would be a mistake. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Take a music bath ounces 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

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~ Gustav Mahler

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? ~ Michael Torke

And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done

He who sings scares away his woes. ~ Cervantes

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~ Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Music is what feelings sound like. ~ Author Unknown

There’s music in the sighing of a reed;
There’s music in the Gushing of a rill;
There’s music in all things, if men Had Ears:
Their goal is an earth echo of the spheres.
~ Lord Byron

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 is the poetry of the air. ~ Richter

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. Sydney Smith

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William P. Merrill

If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. ~ Domenico Cieri Estrada

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven

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

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. ~ Edward Elgar

Alas For those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you do not live it, it will not come out of your horn. ~ Charlie Parker

Life can not 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.

Music cleanses the understanding, inspire it, and lifts it into a realm Which it would not reach if it were left to itself. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Play the music, not the instrument. ~ Author Unknown

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