Music

(92 votes)   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

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(92 votes)   Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Ludwig Van Beethoven
1770-1827, German Composer

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(87 votes)   It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

James Weldon Johnson
1871-1938, American Writer, Diplomat

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(87 votes)   Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Ludwig Van Beethoven
1770-1827, German Composer

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(86 votes)   I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Richard M. Nixon
1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA

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(86 votes)   Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(80 votes)   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
1949-, American Musician, Piano Man, Singer, Songwriter

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(80 votes)   If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Zimbabwe Proverbs

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(79 votes)   Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

William Wordsworth
1770-1850, British Poet

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(77 votes)   It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

James Weldon Johnson

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(77 votes)   Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(76 votes)   Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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(76 votes)   We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Greil Marcus
1945-, American Rock Journalist

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(74 votes)   A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Henry Giles

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(73 votes)   The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music...Bodies never lie...

Agnes de Mille

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