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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
Henry Miller on music

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach on music

Some music really does suck!
Henry Rollins on music

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Ludwig van Beethoven on music

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Samuel Butler on music

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

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Henri Frederic Amiel on music

I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
Lady Gaga on music

Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.
Louis Armstrong on music

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
Peabo Bryson on music

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
Elton John on music

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
Doug Coupland on music

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
Van Morrison on music

In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee Williams on music

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
Ice Cube on music

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
Maynard James Keenan on music

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Gottfried Leibniz on music

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
Wayne Coyne on music

Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
Charles de Lint on music

Music is the best way for me to say I love you.
Mireille Mathieu on music