Music Quotes

"The sound of laughter has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the universe." — Peter Ustinov
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"Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought." — Y. Harburg
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"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence" — Robert Fripp
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"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." — Ludwig Beethoven
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"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable." — Aaron Copland
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"I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water." — Ray Charles
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"Where words fail, music speaks." — Hans Andersen
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"People lost their virginity to this music, got high for the first time to this music, ... I've had people say kids died in Vietnam listening to this music, other people say they know someone who didn't commit suicide because of this music. ... On stage, when we played these songs, they felt mysterious and magic. That's not for rent." — John Densmore
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"Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep." — John Lennon
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"Music is the Voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows" — Napoleon Bonaparte
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"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ''culture.''" — John Cage
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"There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control." — Aaron Copland
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"There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me." — Agnetha Faltskog
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"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become." — H. Auden
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"Our music comes from our hearts - And it always has." — Lars Ulrich
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"Once you sit down and the concert starts, you'll never know where the music will come from next." — Mark Dahlberg
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"Today we are in a war against war - music is our power." — Michael Franti
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"Only sick music makes money today." — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"Lloyd Webbers music is everywhere but so is AIDS." — Malcolm Williamson
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"The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer." — Havelock Ellis
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"I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind." — Lesley Garrett
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