Music! Music! Music!---30 Quotations That Strike A Chord

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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."

-- Henry David Thoreau

"The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. "

-- Bruce Springsteen

"Music is spiritual. The music business is not. "

-- Van Morrison

"It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy. "

-- Lou Reed

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

-- Victor Hugo

"Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life. "

-- Alanis Morissette

"Music at its essence is what gives us memories."

-- Stevie Wonder

"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain."

--George Szell

"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."

-- Kahlil Gibran

"If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know. "

-- Edgar Cayce

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

-- Thomas Carlyle

"Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically. "

-- Ray Charles

"Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live. "

-- James Brown

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

-- Charlie Parker

"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."

--Johann Sebastian Bach

"The history of a people is found in its songs."

-- George Jellinek

"Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind."

-- Hal A. Lingerman

We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. "

-- Jerry Garcia

"All music comes from God."

-- Johnny Cash

"All music is important if it comes from the heart. "

-- Carlos Santana

"Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside. "

-- Elvis Presley

"Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously."

-- Henry Miller

"Without music life would be a mistake."

-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."

-- George Eliot

"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."

-- Leonard Bernstein

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

-- Ludwig van Beethoven

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

--Maya Angelou

"Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance."

-- Louis Armstrong

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

-- Berthold Auerbach

"Music can change the world. "

-- Ludwig Van Beethoven

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"I like it. It has a good beat, but it's kinda hard to dance to. I'll give it a 65, and will definitely add it to my collection."

- Mary Francis Fannggioni
American Bandstand 1960

Ol Hippieposted 310 days ago

Ol Hippie your comment reminded me of the boss I used to work for at the university music library when I was in college. He had three catch phrases that he interjected into all conversations no matter what the topic of discussion. They were, "Rockin' and a-reelin' and a hangin' from the ceiling," "Phonograph records in my soup," and "but...can you dance to it?" Somehow he made them apply to everything we talked about there. He was a bit of an odd duck, but he had a wonderful sense of humor, was kind beyond measure, and was great fun to work for. Good memories of a wonderful time. Thanks for the smile, Ol HIppie. :-)

gratefuldaisyposted 309 days ago

Absolutely.
Music opens the heart and leads the spirit.

This list hit a perfect note.

kathybelleposted 309 days ago