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Music Quotes


"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."


"Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment."


"The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world, it will acceptthose whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected."


"What's all this about sin, eh?''That,' I said, very sick. 'Using Ludwig van like that. He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music.' And then I was really sick and they had to bring a bowl that was in the shape of like a kidney.'Music,' said Dr. Brodsky, like musing. 'So you're keen on music. I know nothing about it myself. It's a useful emotional heightener, that's all I know. Well, well. What do you think about that, eh, Branom?''It can't be helped,' said Dr. Branom. 'Each man kills the thing he loves..."



"There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein."



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


"Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians."


"Music is the only language which can be understood by everyone-even a tree can understand music."


"If I would have listened, if I would have understood diabetes like I understood music, maybe these things wouldn't have happened."



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


"Speaking unspoken words,music is a good way to say."


"When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country."


"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."



"I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other."


"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."


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


"Music is not my life. My life is music."


"Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."


"I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'"


"The heavenly sound of music kindles my heart, twinkles my mind, and feeds my soul so that I may transcend and transform."


"He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood."



"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."
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