Richter
“Music is the poetry of the air.”
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Max Heindel
“Music is the soul of language.”
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Author Unknown
“Music is what feelings sound like.”
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Cervantes
“He who sings scares away his woes.”
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John A. Logan
“Music's the medicine of the mind.”
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
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Heinrich Heine
“When words leave off, music begins.”
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Leo Tolstoy
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
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Mencius
“If the King loves music, it is well with the land.”
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Pat Conroy
“Without music, life is a journey through a desert.”
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George Jellinek
“The history of a people is found in its songs.”
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Pietro Mascagni
“Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.”
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Agnes de Mile
“The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.”
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Henry Giles
“A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.”
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Cervantes
“He who sings frightens away his ills."
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Job 38:7
“When the morning stars sang together.”
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Psalms 100:2
“Come before his presence with singing.”
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Bob Marley
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
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Mickey Hart
“There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.”
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T. S. Eliot
“You are the music while the music lasts.”
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Thomas Carlyle
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
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Berthold Auerbach
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
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Jules Combarieu
"Music is the art of thinking with sounds."
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Voltaire
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
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Pat Conroy
"Without music, life is a journey through a desert."
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Michael Torke
“Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?”
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Aldous Huxley
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
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William P. Merrill
“There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.”
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Doménico Cieri Estrada
“If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.”
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Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
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Alphonse de Lamartine
“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
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Benjamin Disraeli
“Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.”
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
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Confucius
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
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Plato
“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”
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Victor Hugo
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
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Psalm 69:30
“I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.”
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Psalms 40:3
“And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.”
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Martin Luther
"My heart, which is full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."
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Helmut Walcha
“Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.”
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Katie Greenwood
“Music isn't just learning notes and playing them, You learn notes to play to the music of your soul.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.”
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Author Unknown
“Bach gave us God's Word. Mozart gave us God's laughter. Beethoven gave us God's fire. God gave us Music that we might pray without words.”
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Sir Thomas Beecham
“Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.”
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Ardeth Kapp
“Music has a very powerful and wonderful influence in establishing feelings and moods that can lift and elevate your thoughts and your actions.”
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Martin Luther
“Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.”
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Sydney Smith
“If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.”
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Isaiah 5:1
“Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.”
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Thomas Carlyle
“All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.”
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Maya Angelou
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
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Edward Elgar
“My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.”
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David O. McKay
“Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed, how deeply it moves our souls”
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Ephesians 5:19
“Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.”
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Martin Luther
‘Besides theology, music is the only art capable of affording peace and joy of the heart like that Induced by the study of the science of Divinity...”
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Robert G. Ingersoll
“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.”
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Psalms 33:2
“Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.”
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Charles W. Nibley
“There is something in the spirit of song...that fires the soul in a way that it can't otherwise be touched or fired.”
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Carlyle
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man, is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the Infinite.”
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Isaiah 42:10
“Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.”
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Rudger Clawson
“If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of that community.”
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2 Samuel 22:1
“And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul.”
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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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Goethe
“A man should hear a little music....every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
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Brigham Young
“Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain and lift, to comfort and bring peace.”
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Henri Rabaud
“Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.”
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Bill Cosby
"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes."
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Exodus 15:1
“Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.”
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Brigham Young
“Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.”
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Revelation 14:3
“And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred [and] forty [and] four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.”
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H.A. Overstreet
“I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.”
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Richard Baker
“The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“Enjoy music. Not the kind that rocks and rolls, but the music of the masters, the music that has lived through the centuries, the music that has lifted people. If you do not have a taste for it, listen to it thoughtfully. If you do not like it the first time, listen to it again and keep listening.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“Let there be music in the home. If you have teenagers who have their own recordings, you will be prone to describe the sound as something other than music. Let them occasionally hear something better. Expose them to it. It will speak for itself. More of appreciation will come than you may think. It may not be spoken, but it will be felt, and its influence will become increasingly manifest as the years pass.”
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John Phillips Meakin
Music gives us courage on life's uneven highway.
Music cheers the faint and weary.
Music lulls the babe into dreamland.
Music makes the heart tender
Music smoothes the passage to the grave.
Music refines the home and draws the family together in tender sentiments of reverence and aspiration.
Music awakes heroic virtues and arouses in the sluggish breast, enthusiasm.
Music gives a distinctive force in social ranks.
Music stirs the soul and unfolds the mental vision to the highest ideals of character.
Music! Without its divine power, human life would fade away and men and women become automatons, heartless and cold.
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