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“There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.”
Aaron Copland quotes (American Composer, 1900-1990)

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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Aaron Copland quotes (American Composer, 1900-1990)
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“I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.”
santiz Virgil Thomson quotes (American Composer, 1896-1989)
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“Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.”
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“Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.”
french_horn_quee Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky quotes (Russian Composer of the Romantic era. 1840-1893)
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“Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”
Walter Savage Landor quotes (English Writer best remembered for Imaginary Conversations, prose dialogues between historical personages. 1775-1864)
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“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
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“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“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 quotes (German Composer and Musician. 1685-1750)
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“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”
Gustav Mahler quotes (Austrian Composer and Conductor, 1860-1911)
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“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
Frederick Delius quotes (English Composer, one of the most distinctive figures in the revival of English music at the end of the 19th century. 1862-1934)
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