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We listen to great music and know that all our joys and sorrows are part of something beyond our comprehension — and so infinitely valuable. Jesse O’Neill Quoted in Music Lovers Quotations, edited by Helen Exley.  

To hear [Mozart’s] music is to feel one has accomplished some good deed. It is difficult to say precisely wherein this good influence lies, but undoubtedly it is beneficial; the longer I live and the better I know him, the…

Why speak of time travel? We have a tried and proven method with us. Music moves us across centuries and continents without ever leaving our chairs.  Today I have stood in the huge quietness of Solemnes,  circled the glittering ballrooms…

We know an age more vividly through its music than it’s historians. Rosanne Ambrose-Brown Quoted in Music Lovers Quotations, edited by Helen Exley.  Ambrose-Brown is the author of numerous popular children’s books, including I’ve Loved You Since Forever

What is music? This question occupied my mind for hours last night before I fell asleep. The very existence of music is wonderful, I might even say miraculous. Its domain is between thought and phenomena. Like a twilight mediator, it…

I know that twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Quoted in Music Lovers Quotations, edited by Helen Exley.   Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky…

To keep young,  everyday read a poem, hear a choice piece of music, view a fine painting, and, if possible, do a good action.  Man’s highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances, and as little…

For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and I play two preludes and fugues of…