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"Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn."

Money, May

"A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares."

Family, Animals

"Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it."

Music, Careers

"Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading."

Music, Drama, Film, Living

"I am an inventor of music."

Music,

"I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity."

Truth, Present, Today, Tomorrow

"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."

Music, Life

"I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust."

Genius, Variety, Will

"I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God."

Life, Time, Talent, God

"In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?"

Love, Force, Order

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

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Music, Loneliness, Space

"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, Greek Philosopher

Music, Life, Imagination, Soul

"I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Music, Talent, Words

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Music, Soul, Universe

"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Music, Art, God

"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

Music, Race, Voice

"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, American Author

Music, Fear, Danger

"Music fills the infinite between two souls."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

Music, Infinite

"I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

Music, Jazz

"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Music, Heaven