Music Quotes

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Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
- Voltaire

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The most beautiful music of all is the music of what happens.
- Irish Proverb

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Music is the poetry of the air.
- Richter

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Music is an outburst of the soul.
- Frederick Delius

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Music’s the medicine of the mind.
- John A. Logan

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Music is love in search of a word.
- Sidney Lanier

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He who sings scares away his woes.
- Cervantes

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When words leave off, music begins.
- Heinrich Heine

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Only sick music makes money today.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Without music life would be a mistake.
- Friedrich Wilhelm

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Any good music must be an innovation.
- Les Baxter

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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
- J. K. Rowling

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Music is essentially useless, as life is.
- George Santayana

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Music is the universal language of mankind.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I hate music, especially when it’s played.
- Jimmy Durante

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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
- Jean Paul Richter

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
- Robert Fripp

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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
- Miles Davis

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My music is best understood by children and animals.
- Igor Stravinsky

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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

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Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
- Buffy Sainte

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

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If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.
- Doménico Cieri

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
- G. K. Chesterton

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
- George Bernard Shaw

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
- Benny Green

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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
- Lao Tzu

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Music is like making love: either all or nothing.
- Isaac Stern

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Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine

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Music has a spirit, Every song has a feeling, Every lyric has a meaning, Every instrument has a voice, and Every voice deserves to be heard.
- Lisbelkis Santana

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
- Leo Tolstoy