1. “Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”
2. “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
3. “When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
4. “Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.”
5. “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”
6. “Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.”
7. “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
8. “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
9. “Music can change the world because it can change people.”
10. “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
11. “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
12. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.”
13. “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
14. “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
15. “We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
16. “When you’re happy, you enjoy the music but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.”
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17. “Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”
18. “Music isn’t just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It’s a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it’s joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven.”
19. “Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.”
20. “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
21. “Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.”
22. “My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
23. “I believe that a person’s taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.”
24. “Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you.”
25. “Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It’s not about entertainment as much as it’s about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else’s mind, you can begin to fix a problem.”
26. “The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.”
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27. “Analysis did me a lot of good. I think that self-confrontation is a good thing, whether you do it by yourself in solitude, or whether you do it in the presence of another person.”
28. “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
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29. “If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn.”
30. “Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all.”
31. “Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvelous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.”
32. “Music can heal the wounds that medicine cannot touch.”
33. “If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”
34. “Almost all children respond to music. Music is an open sesame, and if you can use it carefully and appropriately, you can reach into that child’s potential for development.”
35. “Listening to music has a positive impact on our health, by helping us recover faster when we experience stress, and through the reduction of the stress hormone cortisol, to help us achieve a calm state or homeostasis.”
36. “Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.”
37. “As a music therapist, having produced an album about the human condition–about anxiety, ADD, and the whole spectrum of what we’re doing, it’s…it’s just such an honor to create art that does more than entertain.”
38. “Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
39. “Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heartstrings. It acts as medicine.”
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40. “Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.”
41. “If you’ve lost your faith in love and music, then the end won’t be long.”
42. “How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?”
43. “I use music as therapy. Whenever I’m feeling angry or needing some ‘me’ time, which is quite regularly, I’ll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.”
44. “The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.”
45. “Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
46. “The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.”
47. “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.”
48. “Can a mere song change a people’s minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind”
49. “If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph; ‘The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.’”
50. “Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.”
51. “Music can be a profound step in the exploration of self, in the conscious act of honest reflection that goes by many names–mindfulness, meditation, self-discovery, self-empowerment, and enlightenment.”
52. “There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.”
53. “Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.”
54. “Once again, she was free. Once again, she found peace. It was music that freed her soul from the dungeon of her mind.”
55. “Music doesn’t get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn’t necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts.”
56. “People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.”
57. “I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.”
58. “If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.”
59. “Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.”
60. “The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.”
61. “Music is the only thing we can engage with that activates every part of our brain.”
62. “Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.”
63. “To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
64. “Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”
65. “Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.”
66. “I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders — Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s — because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.”
67. “Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.”
68. “People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.”
69. “Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”
70. “Music is an art that goes well beyond science. Proof can be found in the huge amount of studies that have been carried out throughout the world based on music therapy and the important results achieved.”
71. “For me, there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.”
72. “Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.”
73. “Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.”
74. “I would teach children music, physicas and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.”
75. “Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.”
76. “A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.”
77. “That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”
78. “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.”
79. “Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.”
80. “If Music is a Place – then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”
81. “Even if you can’t sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.”
82. “Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.”
83. “When we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.”
84. “I’ve always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.”
85. “I’ve always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments”
86. “I think any time I’ve ever got down or ever felt low the one thing that picks me up from that is writing a song about it. At least you’ve got a positive experience out of a bad experience.”
87. “Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.”
88. “Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.”
89. “Or music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts.”
90. “Music therapy is much more complicated than playing records in nursing homes. Therapists are trained in psychology, group interaction, and the special needs of the elderly.”
91. “Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears- it’s a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more–it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.”
92. “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
93. “Music should be a part of every analysis”
94. “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.”
95. “Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
96. “The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.”
97. “Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”
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98. “If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin’ words”
99. “Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.”
100. “Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t.”
