Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.
It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music
People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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.
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."
Music can change the world because it can change people.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
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