music quotes

Red Auerbach

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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Sir Thomas Beecham

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together.

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Thomas Carlyle

Music is well said to be the speech of angels

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Pat Conroy

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

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George Eliot (1819-80), [Mary Ann Evans] British writer

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

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Billy Joel

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be an error.

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Charlie Parker

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

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Agnes de Mile (1905-93)

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.

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June Masters Bacher

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

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T. S. Eliot

You are the music while the music lasts.

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George Gershwin

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

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George Szell

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.