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Collection 1
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
– Maya Angelou
Whenever you have composed a piece of music you is particularly good, it is humbling to think that Mozart probably wrote a better one when he was nine years old!
– David W. Barber
Music may achieve the highest of all missions:
She may be a bond between nations, races, and states…
She may unite what is disunited, and bring peace to what is hostile.
– Max Bendiner
Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
– Leonard Bernstein
Music wasn’t made to make us wise, but better-natured.
– Josh Billings
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
– Chinese proverb
There is music in the air,
Music all around us.
The world is full of it,
And you simply take as much as you desire.
– Sir Edward Elgar
Works of art make rules. Rules do not make works of art.
– Claude Debussy
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
– Duke Ellington
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
– Benny Green
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
– Paul Hindemith
After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
– Aldous Huxley
Music is painted on a canvas of silence.
– Josef Lhévinne
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
– Yehudi Menuhin
Music is to the mind as
air is to the body.
– Plato
In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
– Robert Schumann
A statue has never been set up in honor of a critic.
– Jan Sibelius
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
– Igor Stravinsky
Painters paint pictures on canvas. Musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music; you provide the silence.
– Leopold Stokowski (reprimanding a talkative audience)
Music is the shorthand of emotions.
– Leo Tolstoy
Collection 2
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
– Ella Fitzgerald
Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul and the young must be directed to music and educated in it.
– Aristotle
Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else, rhythm and harmony into the inmost soul and take strongest hold upon it.
– Plato
I don’t know anything about music, and in my line you don’t have to.
– Elvis
I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
– Einstein
See also
- Collection 1
- Collection 2 (draft 1 – more posters to be added later)
