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
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
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
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
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
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.
Don't die with your music still inside you.
- Wayne Dyer
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
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
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Stirred awake by the exquisite music
of my own relentless commitment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
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
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Music is what feelings sound like.
- Anonymous
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
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell
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
The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille
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
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Music and rhythm find their way
into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato
There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin
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
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
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
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
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
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
We don't have a language for the senses.
Feelings are images,
sensations are like musical sounds.
- Anais Nin
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
- Henry David Thoreau
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
The most important words in the English language
are not "I love you" but "It's benign."
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
I personally think we developed language
because of our deep need to complain.
- Lily Tomlin
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Language... has created the word "loneliness"
to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word "solitude"
to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich
A riot is, at bottom, the language of the unheard.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Writing is a dance with the uncertainties of language.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Use what language you will,
you can never say anything but what you are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely.
You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most of the fundamental ideas of science
are essentially simple,
and may, as a rule, be expressed
in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw,
hear what you heard, feel what you felt.
Relevant detail, couched in concrete,
colorful language, is the best way
to recreate the incident as it happened
and to picture it for the audience.
- Dale Carnegie
I feel impelled to speak today in a language
that in a sense is new-one which I,
who have spent so much of my life in the military profession,
would have preferred never to use.
That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If what is seen and experienced is portrayed
in the language of logic,
we are engaged in science.
If it is communicated through forms
whose connections are not accessible
to the conscious mind but are
recognized intuitively as meaningful,
then we are engaged in art.
- Albert Einstein
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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