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“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.”
― Johnny Depp

“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits

“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.”
― Hannah Harrington, Saving June

“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
― Robert Fripp

“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.”
― Maria von Trapp

“Music is the strongest form of magic.”
― Marilyn Manson

“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
― Confucius, The Book of Rites

“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
― Frederick Delius

“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
― Martin Luther

“I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
― HENRY DAVID THOREAU

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
― Alphonse de Lamartine

“For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.”
― Eric Clapton

“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

“It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

“I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.”
― Colbie Caillat

“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..”
― Pablo Casals

“This machine kills fascists.”
― Woody Guthrie

“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
― Edward Bulwer Lytton

“Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.”
― Margot Benary-Isbert, Rowan Farm

“When words fail music speaks. ”
― Irena Huang