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Music is: Breathing. Tide. A great caress from a hand of sand
Christian Bobin

Everything is music. A painting, a landscape, a book, a voyage doesn't mean anything if we don't listen to its music.
Jacques de Bourbon Busset

Music is the language of infinity
Voltaire

Truthfully, if there were no music, there would be more reasons to go mad.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The vase gives form to the emptiness like music to silence.
Georges Braque

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.
William Shakespeare

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

Music makes death recede.
Aesop

Part of the magic of music is that it succeeds in making us feel nostalgia for things that we haven't even known.
Gilbert Cesaron

I said somewhere that it wasn't enough to listen to music but it was also necessary to see it.
Igor Stravinsky

A quality which music sometimes has, being the Art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Oscar Wilde

Music is love in search of words.
Sidney Lanier

Music is what allows us to communicate with the afterlife.
Robert Schumann

A brain is not needed to listen to music.
Luciano Pavarotti

The objective of music shouldn't be more than the glory of God and the awakening of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Music is to the soul what exercise is to the body.
Plato

Music is the arithmetic of sound, as optics is the geometry of light.
Claude Debussy

Music is not for sale. It's for sharing.
Leonard Bernstein

Music only exists in order to speak when words cannot talk. In this sense, it's not totally human.
Pascal Quignard

Music is higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Music is the true universal language.
Carl Maria von Weber

Those who don't give music a chance to change the world are those who don't love it.
Ben Harper

Where the speech of man stops short, then the art of music begins.
Richard Wagner

Source: 700 YEARS OF CLASSICAL TREASURES
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