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Quotes About Emotion

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.
~ Gian Carlo Menotti
Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.
~ Alanis Morissette
The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.
~ Aaron Copland
Music is part of being human.
~ Oliver Sacks
I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.
~ Mahalia Jackson
You don't need any brains to listen to music.
~ Luciano Pavarotti
music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Music that paints nothing is only noise.
~ Jean le Rond d'Alembert
I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.
~ Mark Lanegan
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
~ Frank Sinatra
Music should either move your feet or move your heart
~ Paul van Dyk
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind
~ Jeff Beck
Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.
~ George Harrison
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
~ Siobhan Fahey
It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.
~ Claude Debussy
Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.
~ Ralph Vaughan Williams
Life without music is no life at all.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.
~ Leonard Bernstein
Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
~ Mary Oliver
Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.
~ Damian Marley
The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
~ Odetta