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This is why there was music. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#jodi-picoult #samantha-van-leer #music

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#power-of-music #music

The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices. ↗

— Martin Luther

#power-of-music #men

A person who...does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs." [Foreward to Georg Rhau's (1488-1548) Collection Symphoniae iucundae, 1538] ↗

— Martin Luther

#power-of-music #music

..my music isn't just music- its medicine. ↗

— Kanye West

#medicine #music #music-is-medicine #music

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself ↗

— Plato

#music #wealth #music

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking. ↗

— E.L. Doctorow

#power-of-words #reflection #music

Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don’t know… It’s like some kind of euphoria, that love can’t bring to you. ↗

— Florence Welch

#florence-welch #love #music #love

Music always sounds better on Friday. ↗

— Lou Brutus

#rock #rock-and-roll #weekend #music

So stark ist der Zauber der Musik und, immer mächtiger werdend, musste er jede Fessel einer andern Kunst zerreißen." (Beethovens Instrumentalmusik) ↗

— Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

#power-of-music #music