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“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.”
Martin Luther King
“If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.”
Albert Einstein
“The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.”
Norah Jones
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“ Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“ Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
Plato
“Philosophy is the highest music.”
Plato
“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”
Plato
“For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.”
Plato
“I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.”
Stendhal
“The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.”
Stendhal
“The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.”
Stendhal
“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.”
Honore de Balzac
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
Aldous Huxley
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
Victor Hugo
“All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?”
Willie Nelson
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
William Shakespeare
“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.”
William Shakespeare
“A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.”
Robert Rodriguez
“To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.”
Quentin Tarantino
“People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.”
Serj Tankian
“I'd rather let the music speak for itself.”
Serj Tankian
“It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.”
Serj Tankian
“Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.”
Lil Wayne
“I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap.”
Lil Wayne
“I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.”
Lil Wayne
