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Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People 
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
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Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You always feel better when you sing.
Music touches people's hearts.
You know, it doesn't go through your mental capacity,
it just moves you and it will let you cry.
It's worth it doing a show
and when you touch a crowd
and move yourself at the same
- Jewel
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin
Music is what feelings sound like.
- Anonymous
Music and rhythm find their way
into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
Take a long walk alone in the woods -
leave the cellphone and music player at home.
Your whole BEing will appreciate it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell
Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
Stirred awake by the exquisite music
of my own relentless commitment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't die with your music still inside you.
- Wayne Dyer
There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
- Lao Tzu
Music and silence combine strongly
because music is done with silence,
and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
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
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Count your blessings. Once you realize
how valuable you are and how much you have going for you,
the smiles will return, the sun will break out,
the music will play, and you will finally
be able to move forward the life that God intended
for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino
Indifferent to whether your mood is grumpy or cheerful,
Nature always sings her passionate song of joyful celebration.
You can never stop the happy song of life,
so join the celebration -
sing along, dance, make love,
smile your biggest smile, and cheer on God's music.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch
If being an egomaniac means I believe
in what I do and in my art or my music,
then in that respect you can call me that.
I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
- John Lennon
A "scream" is always just that -
a noise and not music.
- Carl Jung
Music is everybody's possession.
It's only publishers who think that people own it.
- John Lennon
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
Jazz is the music of the body.
- Anais Nin
The body is an instrument which
only gives off music when it is used as a body.
Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls,
so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.
- Anais Nin
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"No comment" is a splendid expression.
I am using it again and again.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy
of this period of social transition
was not the strident clamor of the bad people,
but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Silence gives consent.
- Plato
Keep silence for the most part,
and speak only when you must,
and then briefly.
- Epictetus
Today, I Will Spend Time In Silence.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
- Helen Keller
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Silence is safer than speech.
- Epictetus
We will have to repent in this generation,
not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people,
but for the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows;
your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.
- Osho
Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
New Year's eve is like every other night;
there is no pause in the march of the universe,
no breathless moment of silence among created things
that the passage of another twelve months may be noted;
and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening
that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.
- Hamilton Wright Mabie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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