Found this in my 2002 files; don't remember if I posted.
John C.
THOUGHTS ABOUT MUSIC
"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below."
-- Joseph Addison
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
--Maya Angelou
"Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance."
-- Louis Armstrong
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
-- Berthold Auerbach
"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."
--Johann Sebastian Bach
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music can change the world. "
-- Ludwig Van Beethoven
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
-- Leonard Bernstein
"Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live. "
-- James Brown
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
-- Thomas Carlyle
"All music comes from God."
-- Johnny Cash
"If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know. "
-- Edgar Cayce
"Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically. "
-- Ray Charles
"Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. "
-- Miles Davis
"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."
-- George Eliot
"You are the music while the music lasts."
--T. S. Eliot
"We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. "
-- Jerry Garcia
"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."
-- Kahlil Gibran
"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have."
-- Edgar Watson Howe
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
-- Victor Hugo
"The history of a people is found in its songs."
-- George Jellinek
"Music is the vernacular of the human soul."
-- Geoffrey Latham
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
-- Walter J. Lippmann
"Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind."
-- Hal A. Lingerman
"Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world."
-- Giuseppe Mazzini
"Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously."
-- Henry Miller
"I started making music because I could."
-- Alanis Morissette
"Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life. "
-- Alanis Morissette
"Music is spiritual. The music business is not. "
-- Van Morrison
"Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought."
-- Theodore Mungers
"Without music life would be a mistake."
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
-- Charlie Parker
"Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside. "
-- Elvis Presley
"It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy. "
-- Lou Reed
"The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway."
-- Lionel Richie
"Music should never be harmless."
-- Robbie Robertson
"Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music."
-- Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
"All music is important if it comes from the heart. "
-- Carlos Santana
"Music is the key to the female heart."
-- Johann G. Seume
"The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. "
-- Bruce Springsteen
"All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it."
-- Bruce Springsteen
"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain."
--George Szell
"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."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"For heights and depths no words can reach, music is the soul's own speech."
--Unknown
"Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us."
--Unknown
"I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing."
-- Eddie Vedder
"Music at its essence is what gives us memories. "
-- Stevie Wonder
"There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it."
-- Ron Wood
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