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“The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.”
Agnes De Mille
“Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love”
Louis-Hector Berlioz
“I do not know how to make a distinction between tears and music.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“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
“Music is the art of thinking with sounds.”
Jules Combarieu
“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.”
Virgil Thomson
“Music will save the world”
Pablo Casals
“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