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source: Ludwig Van Beethoven, John Trie (2017). “Ludwig Van Beethoven for Classical Guitar - Tablature: Arranged for Guitar by John Trie”, p.36, BoD - Books on Demand

topic: Music, Wisdom, Philosophy, Music Life, Musical Life

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.88, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Music, Art, Memories, Music Is Life, Music And Life

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

source: Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

topic: Music, Art, Men, Jazz And Blues, Jazz And Life

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

- John Philip Sousa

source: John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.52, A-R Editions, Inc.

topic: Music, Feet, Long, Jazz Musician, Musical Life

Music gives a soul to the universe.

- Plato

topic: Music, Wings, Giving, Jazz And Life, Music Life

You are the music while the music lasts.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Music, Dope, Lasts, Jazz And Life, Musical Life

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

- Billy Joel

source: Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.

topic: Music, Healing, Matter, Music Life, Love Heals

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

topic: Music, Piano, Feelings, Inspirational Music, Music Artist

Where words leave off, music begins.

- Heinrich Heine

topic: Music, Inspirational Music, Music And Life, Music Life, Music Speaks

Country music is three chords and the truth.

- Harlan Howard

source: "Country Scribe Harlan Howard Dies" by Andrew Dansby, www.rollingstone.com. March 5, 2002.

topic: Music, Country, Inspiration, Words And Music, Funny Music

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Inspirational, Music, Fear, Music Life, Music Is Life

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Music, Wisdom, Heaven, Jazz And Life, Music Life

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

- James Brown

topic: Music, Names, Tunes, Writing Music, Music Writing

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

- Billy Joel

source: FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Aug 19, 2013

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Music, Music Life, Soul Healing

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

topic: Mean, Love Is, Sorrow, Music Life, Music Is Life

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

- Charles de Lint

topic: Teenager, Book, Obsessive, Words And Music, Books And Music

These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is more than just words and music.

- Kenneth Ehrlich

topic: Music, Agendas, Feels, Words And Music

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

- Dolly Parton

topic: Running, Ideas, Mind, Words And Music

Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.

- Jeff Britting

source: Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

topic: Meter, Regularity, Certain, Words And Music

Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Needs, Stones, Way, Words And Music

Double-check your voice mail message. Listen to your on-hold words and music. Write welcoming scripts for your telephone team. Pay attention to the music in your office and lobby areas. Make sure what your customers hear sounds good.

- Ron Kaufman

topic: Team, Writing, Service Culture, Words And Music

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

topic: Whole Life, Words And Music

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

- Jane Hirshfield

topic: Perception, Possibility, Words And Music, New Possibilities

My [singing] style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes precedent over the words and music, the audience get’s cheated. It’s like when people see a fine play or movie. They imagine themselves in the leading role. I want them to imagine that they’re singing - not just listening to someone else.

- Judy Garland

topic: Play, Numbers, People, Words And Music

I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.

- John Lennon

topic: Meaningful, Song, Morning, Possessed, Damn Things

My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

- Yoko Ono

source: "The Murder of John Lennon", edition.cnn.com. 2006.

topic: Husband, Humble, Men, Special Man, Words And Music

A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.

- Clay Aiken

source: Clay Aiken, Allison Glock (2004). “Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life”, p.23, Random House

topic: Song, Pain, Soul, Another World, Words And Music

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