Discover the phenomenonal complexity of music and reflect on the way it can positively influence your life with this sound collection of riveting quotes...
<LI>"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below."
-- Joseph Addison
<LI>"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
--Maya Angelou
<LI>"Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance."
-- Louis Armstrong
<LI>"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
-- Berthold Auerbach
<LI>"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
<LI>"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven
<LI>"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven
<LI>"Music can change the world. "
-- Ludwig Van Beethoven
<LI>"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
-- Leonard Bernstein
<LI>"Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live. "
-- James Brown
<LI>"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
-- Thomas Carlyle
<LI>"All music comes from God."
-- Johnny Cash
<LI>"If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know. "
-- Edgar Cayce
<LI>"Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically. "
-- Ray Charles
<LI>"Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. "
-- Miles Davis
<LI>"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."
-- George Eliot
<LI>"You are the music while the music lasts."
--T. S. Eliot
<LI>"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
<LI>"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."
-- Kahlil Gibran
<LI>"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have."
-- Edgar Watson Howe
<LI>"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent."
-- Victor Hugo
<LI>"The history of a people is found in its songs."
-- George Jellinek
<LI>"Music is the vernacular of the human soul."
-- Geoffrey Latham
<LI>"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
-- Walter J. Lippmann
<LI>"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
<LI>"Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world."
-- Giuseppe Mazzini
<LI>"Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously."
-- Henry Miller
<LI>"I started making music because I could."
-- Alanis Morissette
<LI>"Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life. "
-- Alanis Morissette
<LI>"Music is spiritual. The music business is not. "
-- Van Morrison
<LI>"Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought."
-- Theodore Mungers
<LI>"Without music life would be a mistake."
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
<LI>"In music the passions enjoy themselves."
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
<LI>"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
<LI>"Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside. "
-- Elvis Presley
<LI>"It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy. "
-- Lou Reed
<LI>"The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway."
-- Lionel Richie
<LI>"Music should never be harmless."
-- Robbie Robertson
<LI>"Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music."
-- Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
<LI>"All music is important if it comes from the heart. "
-- Carlos Santana
<LI>"Music is the key to the female heart."
-- Johann G. Seume
<LI>"The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. "
-- Bruce Springsteen
<LI>"All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it."
-- Bruce Springsteen
<LI>"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain."
--George Szell
<LI>"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
<LI>"For heights and depths no words can reach, music is the soul's own speech."
--Unknown
<LI>"Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us."
--Unknown
<LI>"I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing."
-- Eddie Vedder
<LI>"Music at its essence is what gives us memories. "
-- Stevie Wonder
<LI>"There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it."
-- Ron Wood
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