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"The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees."
Andre Segovia

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

"When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me."
Aaron Copland

"The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees..."
Andre Segovia

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Berthold Auerbach

"You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?"
Bryan Ferry

"Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off."
Bryan Ferry

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."
Gustav Mahler

"Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all."
Helmut Walcha

"Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music."
Isaac Stern

"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
Jean Paul Richter

"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
Kin Hubbard

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
Leo Tolstoy

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
Maya Angelou

"I don't believe in having bands for solo records."
Mick Jagger

"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."
Oscar Wilde

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

"Music is love in search of a word."
Sidney Lanier

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