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QUOTES

"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” ― Confucius

“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.” ― Johnny Depp

“Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Music is healing. Music holds things together.” ― Prince

“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.” — Sun Tzu

“Music can change the world.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is the strongest form of magic.” ― Marilyn Manson

“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.” ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.” — Oscar Wilde

“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” — Robert Fripp

“Those who wish to sing always find a song.” — Unknown

“Music is life itself.” — Louis Armstrong

“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” — Jane Swan

“Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.” — Eddie Van Halen

“Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all.” — Josh Homme

“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with – nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.” — Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape

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

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” — Plato

“The world’s most famous and popular language is music.” — PSY

“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

“I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.” — Igor Stravinsky

“You can cage the singer but not the song.” — Harry Belafonte

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Music should be your escape.” — Missy Elliot

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

“My music isn’t just music—it’s medicine.” — Kanye West

“People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.” — Michael Jackson

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: ‘The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.’” — Kurt Vonnegut

“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.” — Aretha Franklin

“If I cannot fly, let me sing.” ― Stephen Sondheim

“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.” ― Benjamin Disraeli

“Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” — Steve Maraboli

“The more you love music, the more music you love.”

“Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.” — Yip Harburg

“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.” — Chinese Proverb

 “We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” — Arthur O’Shaughnessy

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” ― Sergei Rachmaninov

“Music can change the world because it can change people.” ― Bono

“That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.” ― Dave Grohl

“Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.” — Mark Twain,

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