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“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.”

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

“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.”

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

“None but ourselves can free our minds.”

“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”

“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.”

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

“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.”

“Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.”

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”