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Music is the shorthand of emotion. – Leo Tolstoy

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. – Anaïs Nin

Strong lager and some early Zep tunes. I ask thee, is there a better way to spend an evening? – Author unknown

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific. – Aaron Copland

What passion cannot music raise and quell! – John Dryden

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. – Paul Simon

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. – Benny Green

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides! – Artur Schnabel

The pause is as important as the note. – Truman Fisher

Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven. – Lawrence Duncan

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. – Confucius

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle. – Liberace

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. – Ronald Reagan

The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. – Richard Baker

Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. – John Philip Sousa

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. – Leigh Hunt

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. – Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard, Comments of Abe Martin and His Neighbors, 1923

Country music is three chords and the truth. – Harlan Howard

An artist, in giving a concert, should not demand an entrance fee but should ask the public to pay, just before leaving as much as they like. From the sum he would be able to judge what the world thinks of him — and we would have fewer mediocre concerts. – Kit Coleman, Kit Coleman: Queen of Hearts

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson