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Musical Quotes

 

Listed below are quotes about music that may give your students something to thing about.  There are many ways to use quotes: as journal starters, as discussion starters, or on the board for students to contemplate throughout the day. Use the following quotes in anyway which works for your students. (These quotes were found in the book Music, A Book of Quotations, edited by Herb Galewitz)

 

Where words fail, music speaks.   Hans Christian Anderson

It’s easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time, and the instrument will play itself.  

Johann Sebastian Bach

 

Is there a heart that music cannot melt? James Beattie

 

Music … can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. 

Leonard Bernstein

 

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.  Pat Conroy

 

You are the music while the music lasts.  T.S. Eliot

 

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.                                                                             Victor Hugo

 

Music is the medicine of the mind.  John Logan

 

Music is to the mind as air is to the body.  Plato

 

Music is the universal language of mankind.

 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow