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Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller on music

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

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
Martin Luther on music

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Keith Richards on music

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on music

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
Frank Sinatra on music

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann on music

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes on music

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick on music

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
Michael Jackson on music

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Frank Zappa on music

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.
Clint Eastwood on music

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.
Clint Eastwood on music

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon Bonaparte on music

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
Adele on music

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken on music

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
Thomas Carlyle on music

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward Beecher on music

Music for me, it demands full concentration.
Paulo Coelho on music

Music fills the infinite between two souls.
Rabindranath Tagore on music