“Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realise.”
Attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte
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Music Quotes
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Music Quotes
Read 200 of the best music quotes from Plato, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Bach, Rabindranath Tagore and Thyagaraja to modern musicians, on the power of music to heal, inspire and bring people together.
“Song, instrumental music and dance, these three together are called sangeet.”
Sharngadeva (Sangita Ratnakara)
Indian MusicDance
“When the Master was in Qi, he heard the Shao music, and for three months did not know the taste of meat.”
Confucius (Analects)
WonderDevotion
“Where there's music there can be no evil.”
Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote)
GoodnessJoy
“He who sings scares away his woes.”
Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote)
SingingSorrow
“Music may be called the sister of painting.”
Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci
ArtPainting
“Sing lustily and with a good courage.”
John Wesley
SingingCourage
“O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.”
The Bible (Psalm 96:1)
PraiseNew Song
“Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.”
The Bible (Psalm 33:3)
SkillPraise
“Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.”
The Bible (Ephesians 5:19)
HymnsFaith
“He will joy over thee with singing.”
The Bible (Zephaniah 3:17)
JoyFaith
“When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.”
The Bible (Job 38:7)
CreationJoy
“The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.”
The Bible (Isaiah 55:12)
NatureJoy
“The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes, ah, that is where the art resides.”
Artur Schnabel
SilencePiano
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”
Attributed to Arthur Rubinstein
LifeLove
“Music will save the world.”
Attributed to Pablo Casals
HopeShort Quotes
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”
Attributed to Gustav Mahler
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“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.”
Martha Graham
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“Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.”
Attributed to Martha Graham
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“If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.”
Isadora Duncan
DanceExpression
“A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 3:4)
SeasonsDance
“Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing.”
The Bible (Psalm 30:11)
JoyDance
“Where the hand goes, the eyes follow; where the eyes go, the mind follows; where the mind goes, the feeling follows; and where the feeling goes, the mood is born.”
Nandikeshvara (Abhinaya Darpana)
Indian Classical DanceExpression
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.”
Attributed to Mikhail Baryshnikov
Self ImprovementDance
“Do it big, do it right and do it with style.”
Attributed to Fred Astaire
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