Maya Angelou Quotes, Music Quotes, Freedom Quotes

My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

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And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

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If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?

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In music the passions enjoy themselves.

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Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.

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He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.

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How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

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I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Music Quotes , Warrior Quotes

Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.

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Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Music Quotes , Two Quotes

I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.

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Tags : Abbey Lincoln Quotes , Music Quotes , New York Quotes

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

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Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.

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PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

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There is music in all things, if men had ears.

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