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

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Samuel Johnson

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent

Victor Hugo

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

Plato

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

Edgar Watson Howe

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

E. Y. Harburg

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music is an outburst of the soul.

Frederick Delius

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Marcel Marceau

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without

Confucius

Music is the universal language of mankind

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Berthold Auerbach

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

Music, the mosaic of the air

Andrew Marvell

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Sir Thomas Beecham

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war

Confucius

Music is the medicine of the mind

John Logan

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

Billie Holiday

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Dennis Gabor

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Gustave Flaubert

The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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