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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley


All music is beautiful. Billy Strayhorn


Any good music must be an innovation. Les Baxter


Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. Kin Hubbard


Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. Howard Dietz


Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. Isaac Stern


Hell is full of musical amateurs. George Bernard Shaw


I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds. Dizzy Gillespie


I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. Elvis Presley


I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. B. B. King


If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. Gustav Mahler


If music be the food of love, play on. William Shakespeare


If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. Thomas Carlyle


If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks. Sidney Lanier


If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. Richard M. Nixon


In music the passions enjoy themselves. Friedrich Nietzsche


It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. Benjamin Britten


Music can change the world because it can change people. Bono


Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. Jimi Hendrix


Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo


Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. Herbie Hancock


Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. William Congreve


Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. Lao Tzu


Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Ludwig van Beethoven


Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato


Music is a performance and needs the audience. Michael Tippett


Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. John Lennon


Music is love in search of a word. Sidney Lanier


Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. Jean Paul


Music is my religion. Jimi Hendrix


Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. Thomas Fuller


Music is the best means we have of digesting time. W. H. Auden


Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. Plato


Music is the shorthand of emotion. Leo Tolstoy


Music is the soul of language. Max Heindel


Music is well said to be the speech of angels. Thomas Carlyle


Music should be your escape. Missy Elliot


Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Maya Angelou


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


Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. Frank Zappa


No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. W. H. Auden


One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bob Marley


Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. Bryan Ferry


The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees. Andres Segovia


The iPod completely changed the way people approach music. Karl Lagerfeld


There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. Frank Zappa


Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. Sidney Lanier


When words leave off, music begins. Heinrich Heine


Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. Robert Browning


Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche


Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Laurie Anderson


You are the music while the music lasts. T. S. Eliot


You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed? Bryan Ferry


You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works. Van Morrison