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Quotes About Music

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.
~ Margaret Fuller
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
~ Marianne Wiggins
I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.
~ Marion Cotillard
Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.
~ Mark Twain
I'll listen to pretty much anything good, but I probably listen to more "electronic" music than anything else.
~ Marques Brownlee
The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.
~ Mary J. Blige
I think now the music is good. I tell people all the time who like to be in the music business you got to have a hit record.
~ Master P
The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment
~ Pythagoras
Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.
~ Rudolf Steiner
When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
~ Paul Gauguin
Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.
~ Sonny Rollins
Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.
~ Alice Herz-Sommer
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
~ Novalis
The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
~ Robert Fulghum
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.
~ Pat Metheny
Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
~ Talib Kweli
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
~ Mary Webb
To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.
~ Russell Sherman
Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.
~ Pierre Schaeffer