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    24 inspirational quotes about classical music

    From scientists and philosophers to poets and playwrights, some of the greatest minds in history were touched and inspired by classical music. Here's a selection of their inspiring words.

    1. Tony Bennett on classical music

      1. Tony Bennett quote

      Tony Bennett: ‘In the 1920s and ’30s, there was a renaissance in music that was the equivalent of the artistic Renaissance. Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and others created the best songs ever written. These are classics... This is classical music’

    2. Dizzy Gillespie quote

      2. Dizzy Gillespie quote

      Dizzy Gillespie quote

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      3. Barack Obama arts quote

      Barack Obama arts quote

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      4. Albert Einstein

      "I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin." - Albert Einstein

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      5. St. Augustine

      St Augustine: "To sing is to pray twice."

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      6. Plato

      Plato: "Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul."

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      7. John Dryden

      John Dryden: "What passion cannot music raise and quell!"

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      8. John Milton

      John Milton: "Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie."

    9. Maya Angelou quotes

      9. Maya Angelou

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

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      10. Hans Christian Andersen

      Hans Christian Andersen: "Where words fail, music speaks."

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      11. Leo Tolstoy

      Leo Tolstoy: "Music is the shorthand of emotion."

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      12. John Keats

      John Keats: "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. Therefore, ye soft pipes, play on."

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      13. Heinrich Heine

      Heinrich Heine: "When words leave off, music begins."

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      14. George Bernard Shaw

      George Bernard Shaw: "Hell is full of musical amateurs."

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      15. Aldous Huxley

      Aldous Huxley: "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

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      16. B.B. King

      The beautiful thing about learning is that no-one can take it away from you." - B.B. King

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      17. Jean Paul Richter

      Jean Paul Richter: "Music is the poetry of the air."

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      18. Victor Hugo

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

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      19. Confucius

      Confucius: "Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without."

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      20. Friedrich Nietzsche

      Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."

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      21. Oscar Wilde

      Oscar Wilde: "Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."

    22. Wadsworth Longfellow classical music quotes

      22. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "Music is the universal language of mankind."

    23. T S Eliot classical music quotes

      23. T. S. Eliot

      T. S. Eliot: "Music heard so deeply / That is not heard at all, but you are / The music / While the music lasts."

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      24. Robert Browning

      Robert Browning: "There is no truer truth obtainable by man than that which comes of music."

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      25. Albert Einstein

      Albert Einstein: "I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music."

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      26. Benjamin Disraeli

      Benjamin Disraeli: "Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth."

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      27. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

      Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "I call architecture frozen music."

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