Words on The Power of Music

 

Words on The Power of Music

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC.”– Kurt Vonnegut

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

“My ambition was to live like music.” – Mary Gaitskill

“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

“Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.”– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”– Elton John

“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.”– Aretha Franklin

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” – Lao Tzu

“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears – it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more – it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.”– Oliver Sacks

“Music should be an essential part of every analysis.”– Carl Jung

“Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.”– Douglas Adams

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”– Albert Einstein

“Songs won’t save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.” – Pete Seeger

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”– Charles Darwin

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

“Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.”– Steve Maraboli

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

“Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.”– Oscar Wilde

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

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.” – Maya Angelou

“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”– Robert Browning

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

“I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.”– Bryce Anderson

“Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”– Yip Harburg

“If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.”– William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.” – Criss Jami

“My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.”– Bob Marley

“Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.”– Edgar Winte