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“Musicians own music because music owns them.”
Virgil Thomson
“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.”
Marcel Marceau
“Music is the art of thinking with sounds.”
Jules Combarieu
“I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.”
George Eliot
“I do not know how to make a distinction between tears and music.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Music will save the world”
Pablo Casals
“I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.”
“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
Martin Luther
“Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.”
Aristotle
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.”
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy