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Music produces a kind of pleasure
by Confucius

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

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius

Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg

Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach

When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't die with your music still inside you.
- Wayne Dyer

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler

You always feel better when you sing.
Music touches people's hearts.
You know, it doesn't go through your mental capacity,
it just moves you and it will let you cry.
It's worth it doing a show
and when you touch a crowd
and move yourself at the same
- Jewel

Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter

Music fills the infinite between two souls.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen

Music and rhythm find their way
into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato

Music and silence combine strongly
because music is done with silence,
and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau

Take a long walk alone in the woods -
leave the cellphone and music player at home.
Your whole BEing will appreciate it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe

Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono

Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo

Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Stirred awake by the exquisite music
of my own relentless commitment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Count your blessings. Once you realize
how valuable you are and how much you have going for you,
the smiles will return, the sun will break out,
the music will play, and you will finally
be able to move forward the life that God intended
for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino

Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
- Lao Tzu

The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille

Music is what feelings sound like.
- Anonymous

Indifferent to whether your mood is grumpy or cheerful,
Nature always sings her passionate song of joyful celebration.
You can never stop the happy song of life,
so join the celebration -
sing along, dance, make love,
smile your biggest smile, and cheer on God's music.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous

A "scream" is always just that -
a noise and not music.
- Carl Jung

If being an egomaniac means I believe
in what I do and in my art or my music,
then in that respect you can call me that.
I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
- John Lennon

Jazz is the music of the body.
- Anais Nin

Music is everybody's possession.
It's only publishers who think that people own it.
- John Lennon

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine

The body is an instrument which
only gives off music when it is used as a body.
Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls,
so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.
- Anais Nin

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr

Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue
by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed -
it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard

May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney

Words are also actions,
and actions are a kind of words.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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