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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Music, World

"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Music, Mistakes, Life, Practice

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Music, Truth, Happiness, Power, Inspirational

"Music is the language of the soul and the expression of deep inner feelings."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Soul, Feelings, Deep

"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Music, Art, God

"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Music, Jazz, Humor, Truth

"They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Music, Regret, Today, Wisdom

"No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Music, Change, Structure, Art

"Music is healing and soothing. It is the universal language of kindness and love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Healing, Language, Love

"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, English Poet

Music, Poetry, Nations, Painting

Explore more quotes by Agnetha Faltskog

"I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything."

Approval

"When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!"

Life

"There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection."

Danger

"This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money."

Money

"It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!"

Family

"It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security."

Life

"I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow."

Feelings

"I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me."

May

"There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me."

Music