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Music is my higher power. - Oliver James

Music is the poetry of the air. - Jean Paul Richter

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. - Jon Stewart

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

Without music, life would be a blank to me. - Jane Austen

I hate music - especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. - Xila Toro

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. - G K Chesterton

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. - George Eliot

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated. - John Barbirolli

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't. - Johnny Depp

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? - Richard Wagner

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. - W H Auden

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. - Duke Ellington

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. - George Eliot

The sweetest music in the world to every person is his own name. - Unknown

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has. - Taylor Swift

If in the afterlife there is not music, we will have to import it. - Domenico Cieri Estrada

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. - Pablo Casals

Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize. - Napoleon Bonaparte

My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

Inspiration at its best means breath, and only too frequently means wind. - G K Chesterton

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. - Maria Augusta von Trapp

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you. - Charles Hart

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. - Stephen King

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous. - Barry Manilow

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

Music Lover: A man, who upon hearing a soprano in the bathroom, puts his ear to the keyhole - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. - Haruki Murakami

Great music is as much about the space between the notes as it is about the notes themselves. - Sting

Success is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration, and 2 percent attention to detail. - Phil

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart. - Paul McCartney

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. - Martin Luther

What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. - Iggy Pop

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. - William Shakespeare

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. - Leonard Bernstein

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder

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

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? - Michael Jackson

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. - Charles Darwin

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, makes me feel like music. - Lauren Oliver

The great outdoors is a theme with me; a walking holiday in Scotland is perfect - Culloden and the forests of Aviemore are both favourites. - Erin O'Connor

Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato