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Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

— Max Roach

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.

— Yehudi Menuhin

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

— Lillian Hellman

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be…

— William Westney

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

— Tod Machover

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

— George Santayana

Music causes us to think eloquently.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

— Aaron Copland

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

— Oliver Sacks

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

— Dwight Yoakam