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Quote |
Author |
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| Music | "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness." | Angelou, Maya |
| Music | "No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible." | Auden, W. H. |
| Music | "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." | Auerbach, Berthold |
| Music | "Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once." | Browning, Robert |
| Music | "Music is well said to be the speech of angels." | Carlyle, Thomas |
| Music | "An intellectual is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger." | Chesson, John |
| Music | "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." | Copland, Aaron |
| Music | "Music is an outburst of the soul." | Deluis, Frederick |
| Music | "You are the music while the music lasts." | Eliot, T. S. |
| Music | "You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?" | Ferry, Bryan |
| Music | "Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off." | Ferry, Bryan |
| Music | "A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges." | Green, Benny |
| Music | "Country music is three chords and the truth." | Howard, Harlan |
| Music | "Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune." | Hubbard, Kin |
| Music | "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." | Hugo, Victor |
| Music | "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." | Huxley, Aldous |
| Music | "I don't believe in having bands for solo records." | Jagger, Mick |
| Music | "Music is love in search of a word." | Lanier, Sidney |
| Music | "Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." | Leibniz, Gottfried |
| Music | "If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music." | Mahler, Gustav |
| Music | "Without music, life would be a mistake." | Nietzsche, Friedrich |
| Music | "In music the passions enjoy themselves." | Nietzsche, Friedrich |
| Music | "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." | Overstreet, H. A. |
| Music | "If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong." | Rattle, Simon |
| Music | "Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life." | Richter, Jean Paul |
| Music | "The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees..." | Segovia, Andre |
| Music | "Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music." | Stern, Isaac |
| Music | "Music is the shorthand of emotion." | Tolstoy, Leo |
| Music | "Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?" | Torke, Michael |
| Music | "Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all." | Walcha, Helmut |
| Music | "Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory." | Wilde, Oscar |
