There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
If music be the food of love, play on.
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
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.
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
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.
People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
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.
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC
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