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The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

He has Van Gogh's ear for music. - Billy Wilder

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

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

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain

Rock and roll: music for the neck downwards. - Keith Richards

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. - Lao Tzu

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

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. - Robert Browning

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Making music should not be left to the professionals. - Michelle Shocked

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference. - Herbie Hancock

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

We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression. - Johnny Ramone

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. - Dave Barry

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. - Pat Conroy

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova

The only purpose for music should be the glory of God and the re-creation of the human spirit. - Johann Sebastian Bach

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou

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

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. - Oscar Wilde

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. - Dimebag Darrell

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. - Sarah Dessen

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

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