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“Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.”

Inspirational Whole Dream Body Used Music Listening Instruments Response Musical Our Dreams Listen To Your Heart Musical Instruments

Author:Marion Woodman

“I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.”

Stories Dream Song Fall Music Sea Century Cry Singing Rhythm Ancestor Falling Down Lullaby

Book:Composed: A Memoir

Source: Composed: A Memoir

“The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.”

Dream Reality Music Music Is Garbage Old Days Good Old Days

Author:John Lennon

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”

“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”

Ifs Believe Art Ends Dream Reality Motivational Artist Imagination Music Creativity Support Sacrifice Citizens Appreciation Worthless Altars Crude

Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated

Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”

“We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.”

World Life Dream Seems Music Forever Sea Moon Sitting Wander Streams Makers Loser Dreamer Pale Lone Gleam Desolate Shakers Movers And Shakers

Author:Arthur O'Shaughnessy

“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”

Ifs Life Enough Dream Bigs Women Music Perseverance Your Dreams Scare Pick Me Up Chasing Dreams Female Leaders Motivational Exercise Dream Chasing

Author:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

“Life is but a dream for the dead.”

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Author:Gerard Way

“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.”

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Author:Albert Camus

“How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?”

Thinking Dream Music

Author:Lou Reed

“Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.”

World Humans Dream Eye Waiting Human Beings Music Jazz Musical Abstract Human Eyes

Author:Sun Ra

“A goal is a dream with a finish line.”

Inspirational Dream Goal Lines Music Jazz Jazz Music Finish Line

Author:Duke Ellington

“Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.”

“You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?”

Ifs Dream Music Jazz Dreams Come True Dreams You Have

Author:Oscar Hammerstein II

“If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I”

Ifs Knows Dream Together Dies Music Forever Clouds Our Dreams

Author:Diana Ross

“I've dreamed of this a thousand times before But in my dreams I couldn't love you more I will give you my heart Until the end of time... You're all I need, my love, my Valentine”

Needs Giving Heart Ends Dream Music Love You My Heart Thousand End Times Valentine Love You More

Author:Martina McBride

“May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.”

Thinking Feels May Reason Dream Music Musician Music Is Mathematics Mathematician Working Life

Book:The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester:

Source: The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester:

“I discovered at 18 that singing and songwriting was my strength. I decided that it was closest to my heart and if I pursued it then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.”

Ifs Heart Dream Would Be Music My Heart Singing Decided Competition Songwriting Closest Living My Life Pursued Just Live Being Myself

Author:Jason Mraz

“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.”