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For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe.

Ruth Bernhard

In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music.

Nick Cannon

Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.

KABIR

Jazz is the music of the body

Anais Nin

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age

Paul Whiteman

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

Heinrich Heine

It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony, like a following breeze at sea, is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost, our lot is to tack and tune.

Harvey Oxenhorn

Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy.

Robert Burton

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Martin Luther

Music influences fashion and vice versa. You have to strike the right balance of both sex and sophistication.

Tina Chai

If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm, and You are the music.

P!nk

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

Take time to think.. it is the source of power. Take time to play.. it is the secret of prepetual youth. Take time to readÖ it is the fountain of wisdom. Take time to pray.. it is the greatest power on earth. Take time to laughÖ it is the music of the soul. Take time to giveÖ it is too short a day to be selfish.

Anon xx

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Abraham Maslow

Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Walter Savage Landor

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Nietzsche

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

Louis-Ferdinand CÈline

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Marcus Aurelius

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere

James Martineau

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Charles Baudelaire

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Angela Monet

Those who can't dance say the music is no good

Jamaican Proverb

Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone As when the Organ's music rolls; No gold rewards, but song alone, The deeds of great and noble souls. [Ger., Hoch klingt das Lied vom braven Mann, Wie Orgelton und Glockenklang; Wer hohes Muths sich ruhmen kann Den lohnt nicht Gold, den lohnt Gesang.

Gottfried Augustus Burger

The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.

Phillips Brooks

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