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Where words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian AndersenApr 2, 1805 - Aug 4, 1875

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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

'Chinese Proverb'

Maya AngelouAmerican Poet Apr 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014

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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Maya AngelouAmerican Poet Apr 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014

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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.Wystan Hugh AudenPoetFeb 21, 1907 - Sep 29, 1973


The one universal form of art is music.

Faith BaldwinAuthorOctober 1, 1893 – March 18, 1978


It is the special province of music to move the heart.

Johann Sebastian BachComposer1685 March 31 ~ 1750 July 28


Music can change the world.

Ludwig van BeethovenComposer1770 - Mar 26, 1827


An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.



Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.Ludwig van BeethovenComposer1770 - Mar 26, 1827


Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.



Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.



Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.

Irving BerlinAmerican ComposerMay 11, 1888 - Sep 22, 1989


Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like

handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

James Alonzo Bishop

JournalistNovember 21, 1907~ December 29, 1987


I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

Victor Borge

Comedian, conductor, and pianist3 January 1909 – 23 December 2000Børge Rosenbaum


Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.Samuel ButlerAuthor4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902


I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

Frederic Francois ChopinComposerMar 1, 1810 - Oct 17, 1849

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Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!Frederic Francois ChopinComposerMar 1, 1810 - Oct 17, 1849


Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.



Music has no fatherland; its homeland is the whole universe.



Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.



To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!



The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

Dick ClarkTelevision PersonalityRichard Wagstaff ClarkNov 30, 1929 - Apr 18, 2012


Music is the emotional life of most people.Leonard Norman CohenSingerSep 21, 1934 - Nov 7, 2016


When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

Leonard CohenSingerLeonard Norman CohenSept 21, 1934 - Nov 7, 2016


This is every musician's dream, to stand in front of an audience and not have to prove your credentials.

Leonard CohenSingerLeonard Norman CohenSept 21, 1934 - Nov 7, 2016


I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

Nat King ColePerformerMarch 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965Nathaniel Adams Coles


The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.



I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.



Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.



Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Confucius

孔夫子Kong fu ziPhilosophy Teacher 551 BC - 479 BC

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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Aaron CoplandComposer1900 Nov 14 ~ 1990 Dec 02


The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.



If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.



Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.



When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.



So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.



You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.



For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.



Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Aleister Crowley

MagicianOct 12, 1875 - Dec 01, 1947


Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Sammy Davis, Jr.SingerSamuel George Davis JrDec 08, 1925 - May 16, 1990


Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago.

James DeanActorFeb 8, 1931 - Sep 30, 1955


Music is the space between the notes.

Claude DebussyComposer1862 Aug 22 ~ 1918 Mar 25


There is nothing more musical than a sunset.



If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.



There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.



Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.



I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.



On those who over-analyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly.



Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.



The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.



It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.



But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.



Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.



I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955


Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

Ralph Waldo EmersonPhilospher May 25, 1803 - Apr 27, 1882


Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.Edward Morgan Forster

EssayistJan. 1, 1879 - Jun. 7, 1970


Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

Aretha FranklinSinger*Aretha Louise FranklinMar 25, 1942 - Aug 16, 2018


I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.

George GershwinComposer and Pianist1898 Sept 26 ~ 1937 July 11

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I like to think of music as an emotional science.George GershwinComposer and Pianist1898 Sept 26 ~ 1937 July 11


When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.George GershwinComposer and Pianist1898 Sept 26 ~ 1937 July 11


Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.



True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.



Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably results in a physical reaction. Eventually the proper vibration for every person will be found and utilized.



Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.



The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself...Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.



I call architecture frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAug 28, 1749 - Mar 22, 1832Philosopher and poet

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There is a craft and a power in listening.

Glenn GouldClassical pianist1932 Sept 25 ~ 1982 Oct 04 Glenn Herbert Gould


[Bach is the] reason I became a musician.



One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.



The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.



I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it differently, to perform it differently, to establish the music's difference, vis-a-vis our own difference.



The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may

change human beings who might change the world.

Maxine GreenePhilosopherSarah Maxine Greene1917 Dec 23 ~ 2014 May 29


It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people.

Woody GuthrieFolksingerWoodrow Wilson GuthrieJul 14, 1912 - Oct 03, 1967


Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes sr.

PhysicianAugust 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894


Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is

impossible to be silent.

Victor Marie Hugo Author

Feb 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885


After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Leonard HuxleyWriter and philosopher Jul 26, 1894 - Nov 22, 1963


I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.Janis JoplinMusicianJanis Lyn Joplin1943 Jan 19 ~ 1970 Oct 4


To hear, one must be silent.

Ursula K. Le GuinAuthor: The Word for World is Forest1929 Oct 21 ~ 2018 Jan 22


I don't give concerts, I put on a show.

LiberacePianist1919 May 16 ~ 1987 Feb 04


My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play

Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

LiberacePianist1919 May 16 ~ 1987 Feb 04


The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.

Franz LisztComposer1811 Oct 22 ~ 1886 Jul 31


My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.



Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.



Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.



O Music! language of the soul…Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPoet1807 Feb 27 ~ 1882 Mar 244


The human voice is the organ of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPoet1807 Feb 27 ~ 1882 Mar 24


The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.



Music is the universal language of mankind.



I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.

Gustav Mahler ComposerJul 7, 1860 - May 18, 1911


The real art of conducting consists in transitions.



To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.



What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.



It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.



If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.



To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.



In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.



In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.



A symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.



It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.



One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.Bob MarleyMusician1945 Feb 6 ~ 1981 May 11Robert Nesta Marley


We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves.Jim MorrisonThe DoorsJames Douglas MorrisonDec 08, 1943 - Jul 03, 1971


Melody is the essence of music.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ComposerJan 27, 1756 - Dec 5, 1791


Creativity is the firing of my soul.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ComposerJan 27, 1756 - Dec 5, 1791


I choose such notes that love one another.



Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.



If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.



The music is not in the notes, but the silence in between.



Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.



Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.



Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheGerman philosopher

Oct 15, 1844 - Aug 25, 1900


We do not remember days, we remember moments.Cesare PaverseNovelist1908 Sept 9 ~ 1950 Aug 27


Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

Plato

Athenian philosopher


Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato



Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato



Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is

the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

Terry Pratchett

Humorist28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015Sir Terence David John Pratchett


Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best

thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.

Gilda Susan RadnerActressJun 28, 1946 - May 20, 1989


The earth has music for those who listen.George SantayanaPhilosopherJorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás16 December 1863 – 26 September 1952


We cannot close our ears; we have no ear lids!

R. Murray Schafer

Composer and pianistAuthor: The Tuning of the World1933 July 18 ~ 2021 Aug 14Raymond Murray Schafer


Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

R. Murray Schafer



The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.

R. Murray Schafer



Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Anne SextonPoetNovember 9, 1928 ~ October 4, 1974


If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard ShawPaywrightJul 26, 1856 - Nov 2, 1950


Those who have ears to hear, will hear.

Dmitri ShostakovichComposer1906 Sept 25 ~ 1975 Aug 09


Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!



In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.



A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.



If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.



Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it

arouses them and leads them onward.



Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator...If a

work doesnt express the composers own personal point of view, his own ideas, then it doesnt, in my opinion, even deserve to be born.



For me, music begins where words end.

Jean SibeliusComposer1865 Dec 08 ~ 1957 Sept 20


Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.



I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.



Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.



If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music.



Art is the signature of civilizations.

Beverly Sills

Opera Soprano1929 May 25 - 2007 Jul 02


Music is an art and art has its own rules.

Nina Simone

SingerFeb 21, 1933 - Apr 21, 2003(born)Eunice Kathleen Waymon


Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music.

Nina Simone

SingerFeb 21, 1933 - Apr 21, 2003(born)Eunice Kathleen Waymon


Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It's like being between the keys of a piano.

Nina Simone Aka: Eunice Kathleen WaymonFeb 21, 1933 - Apr 21, 2003


It's not the words but the music that counts.Benjamin SpockBenjamin McLane SpockPediatritionMay 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998


When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world of his spiritual home.

Rudolf SteinerPhilosopherRudolf Joseph Lorenz SteinerFeb 25, 1861 - Mar 30, 1925


Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

Isaac SternViolinist1920 July 21 ~ 2001 Sept 22


Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.



Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.



A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.



The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.

Leopold StokowskiConductorLeopold Anthony Stokowski18 April 1882–13 September 1977


We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.Igor Fyodorovich StravinskyComposerJun 17, 1882 - Apr 6, 1971


Music is the shorthand of emotion.

“Leo” TolstoyPhilosopher Aug 28, 1828 - Nov 20, 1910Lev “Leo” Nikolayevitch Tolstoy


You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.

Robin WilliamsComedianJul 21, 1951 - Aug 11, 2014


You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.

Robin WilliamsComedianJul 21, 1951 - Aug 11, 2014


A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.

Amy WinehouseSinger14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011Amy Jade Winehouse


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