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These 15 quotes from musicians and composers show just how music can ease tension, bring people together and inspire change.
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” - Leonard Bernstein Picture: Getty
“So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.” - Aaron Copland Picture: Getty
“Brotherhood despite all wars and conflicts: I try - to the best of my ability - to serve this idea in my music.” - Béla Bártok Picture: Getty
“Where words fail, music speaks.” - Hans Christian Andersen Picture: Getty
“When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.” - Daniel Barenboim Picture: Getty
“Music - that wonderful language - should be a source of communication among men.” - Pablo Casals Picture: Getty
“Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.” - Paul Hindemith Picture: Getty
“Supposing times were normal - normal as they were before 1914 - then the music of our time would be in a different situation.” - Arnold Schoenberg Picture: Getty
“All the disorders, all the wars which we see in the world, only occur because of the neglect to learn music.” - Molière Picture: Getty
“Some of us are born with a weakness for music. As a baby, music would stop whatever thought I was having. If I was worried, it would stop me worrying; if I was crying, it would stop me crying. Music was a healing thing for me.” - Andrea Bocelli Picture: Getty
“When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.” - Confucius Picture: Getty
“Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.” - Zubin Mehta Picture: Getty
“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.” - Benjamin Britten Picture: Getty
“A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.” - Gustav Mahler Picture: Getty
“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.” - Martin Luther Picture: Getty