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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’

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      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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