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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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

tags: music

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“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: music

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#4

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

tags: music

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#5

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

tags: loneliness, music, refuge

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#6

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
― Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare

tags: music

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#7

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

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#8

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

tags: death, life, music

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#9

“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”
― Samuel Butler

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#10

“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.”
― Modest Mouse, Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

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#11

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
― Aaron Copland

tags: music

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#12

“Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.”
― Jerry Seinfeld

tags: dance, humor, music, radio, shower

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#13

“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
― Leonard Bernstein

tags: music

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#14

“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac

tags: music, truth

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#15

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”
― Maya Angelou

tags: music

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#16

“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 he hears, however measured or far away.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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#17

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
― Leopold Stokowski

tags: music

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#18

“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.”
― Anais Nin

tags: inspirational

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#19

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

tags: humor, life, music

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#20

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#21

“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

tags: music

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#22

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: music, poetry, power-of-music

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#23

“I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.”
― John Barrowman

tags: bollywood, happiness, humor, music

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#24

“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”
― Steve Martin

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#25

“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”
― Douglas Adams

tags: music, power-of-music, universe

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#26

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

tags: music, power-of-music

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#27

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

tags: attributed-no-source

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#28

“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”
― Robert Benchley

tags: bleeding, funny, humor, opera, stabbed

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#29

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

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#30

“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
― Sir James Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: music

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