909 private quotes tagged music

“Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.” — Martin Luther

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“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.” — George Eliot

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“Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.” — William Blake

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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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“A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.” — Stephen Hawking

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“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?” — Khalil Gibran

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“It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.” — Steve Jobs

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“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.” — Albert Einstein

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“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” — Henry David Thoreau

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

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“Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Hell is full of musical amateurs.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.” — Richard Branson

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“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.” — John Lennon

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“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” — Lao Tzu

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“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.” — Thomas Fuller

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“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” — Jimmy Carter

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“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

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