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You are the music while the music lasts.
- T. S. Eliot

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
- William Congreve

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

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
- Robert Browning

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
- Benjamin Britten

Any good music must be an innovation.
- Les Baxter

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

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- W. H. Auden

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

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
- Laurie Anderson

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
- Sidney Lanier

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

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
- B. B. King

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

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo

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

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
- Jimi Hendrix

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
- Herbie Hancock

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
- Dizzy Gillespie

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
- Thomas Fuller

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
- Bryan Ferry

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
- Bryan Ferry

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
- Frank Zappa

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
- Frank Zappa

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
- Frank Zappa

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
- Leo Tolstoy

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
- Isaac Stern

 ... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
- Andres Segovia

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

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

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
- Jean Paul
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
- Richard M. Nixon

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be a mistake.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
- Van Morrison

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
- Bob Marley

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
- Gustav Mahler

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
- John Lennon