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  • Music can change the world because it can change people.

  • Where words fail, music speaks.

    Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”
  • I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

    Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.
  • Music can change the world.

    Music   Peace   World  
  • I’ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of them come close to having Ed’s [Eddie Van Halen's] fantastic combination of chops and musicianship. I rank him along with Charlie Parker and Art Tatum as one of the three greatest musicians of my lifetime. Unfortunately, I don’t think Ed puts himself in that class.

    Art   Player   Thinking  
  • No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

    Music   Healing   Matter  
    Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.
  • 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 (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.12, St. Martin's Press
  • Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  • Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

    Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation
  • John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. ..... The first time I heard a Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could've been from mars as far as i was concerned, or another galaxy. I remember the album cover and the name, but the music didn't fit into the patterns of my brain at that point. It was like someone trying to tell a monkey about spirituality or computers, you know, it just didn't compute.

    Powerful   Names   Mind  
  • Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.

    "Wynton Marsalis: Jazz Messenger". Interview with Eugene Holley, Jr., www.ebony.com. September 4, 2012.
  • Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

    Thomas Carlyle (1888). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)”
  • I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

    FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Aug 19, 2013
  • I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time.

    Musician   Booty   Freak  
    Source: uproxx.com
  • After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

    Music at Night (1931) p. 17
  • I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and I got to play a few tunes with him there. Shortly after that, I joined his band, which was the equivalent of joining the Beatles for me! He was, and still is, one of the greatest musicians I have ever been lucky enough to be around.

    Play   Musician   Tunes  
  • Music gives a soul to the universe.

    Music   Wings   Giving  
  • It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

    Claude Samuel, Olivier Messiaen (1976). “Conversations with Olivier Messiaen”, Stainer & Bell, Limited
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