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You gain strength with every difficulty, which you boldly overcome.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Tell me, who in this life, were never guided in course of their realization of their goal?
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Without a clear vision, you can be drifted to any shore.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You can spread joyfulness in any place of bitterness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
As long as we desire to reach new heights, we will find the strength to climb the mountain.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Great souls encouraged us to be great.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You can boldly overcome every circumstance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Good deeds awakens the good spirit of every soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Your mornings are very powerful. Be careful with them.
— Matthew Donnelly
Gratitude opens overflowing of heavenly blessings.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Daily inspiration is uplifting to the spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There was so little I wanted to carry. Packing my backpack took me all of four minutes
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I've learned that in order to effectively and genuinely "Change" for the better.#1. Must want to change. (Grow)#2. Know who we are now relative to who we want to be.#3. Paradoxically we must except who we are in the present moment. (You are worthy right now, you are just searching for a higher a 'self')#4. Know that "True" change comes from within the mind. To the much deeper 'self' feelings and emotions.#5. Make no drastic changes, but focus simply on making small ones within the present moment.Sincerely,My present self.
— Matthew Donnelly
There exist bright sunny moment in any events of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Never modify your goals, amplify your might.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be firm with your decisions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be happy while you have life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It takes persistent practice to be skilful in the act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Use your time and your strength for your accomplishments.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
With discipline, dedication and diligence, you will achieve the goal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
we are entitled to a great life – that somehow, somewhere, someone (certainly not us) is responsible for filling our lives with continuous happiness, exciting career options, nurturingfamily time, and blissful personal relationships simply becausewe exist. But the real truth – and the one lesson that all thesuccess principles I have learnt are based on – is that there is onlyone person responsible for the quality of the life you live. Thatperson is you.
— Derric Yuh Ndim
Disentangle yourself from anything that will not promote your progress.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Keep trying, your success is certain.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Competence, Courage, Confident!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
To failure at something is an attempt to succeed. Be strong and try again.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
our tomorrow isshaped by the choices we make today, consciously or unconsciously
— Derric Yuh Ndim
How we feel (emotions) determines what we do (our actions/behavior) which directly determines the results manifested inour life.
— Derric Yuh Ndim
Freedom is a spiritual-self liberty.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Healthy life is a sacred being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Hope is an anchor for the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Every day life is a miraculous.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
At crossroad, God is our guide post. He points the right path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
God will make straight paths.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
May you travel on your destiny path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The journey of life pathways are best known by the Creator.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
At the crossroad, may God point the straight path for your journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Never doubt yourself!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Maximum your strengths.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
When I wake up each morning
—  my heart is filled with thanks to God!
There is no limit to positive affirmations.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When we raise our vibration to the state of "Being Love," we change and our world shifts into something so delicious and intoxicating that words hardly do justice to its description.
— Leeza Donatella, The State of Being Love: Steps to Raise Your Vibration for a Joy Filled Life
Life is your greatest asset.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Excellent people are those, who choose to separate themselves from mediocrity.
— Mark F. LaMoure
Every stage of life is a chapter of a book. You must begin writing your life book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be enthusiastic about your life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May power of the Holy Spirit, renew your thoughts and attitudes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Hope is my joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The Word of God, strengthen the spirit! Mediate on it daily!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
All times are sacred
—  good times or bad times.
Hope is a gracious expectation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Hope is a trust in a Supreme.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Hope is enthusiastic anticipation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There is hope in any circumstance. Be strong!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We are God’s holy temple. The Spirit dwells in us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Excellence is a journey and a constant process. It is never a final destination. Have fun and enjoy it as a lifetime self-improvement program. Polish yourself for excellence. Glitter and sparkle for success.
— Mark F. LaMoure
O Lord, grant me the grace of endurance, in the race of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We ought to be patient at all times.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Fear not! The Lord will rescue and deliver you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Times of adversity, rekindle my spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You must conquer fear with faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Freedom is ability to resist any harmful action.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Freedom is the courage to live your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May the Lord revive your spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May the Lord restore your soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
My strength is in the Lord. In him, I breathe, live and move.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You must resist negative thoughts, negative criticism and negative influences.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May you find the might, the power within you, to eagerly reach out to your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Don’t allow the demands of work load
—  make you lose touch with life.
Motivation enhances human worth and potential.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be watchful. Pray always!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Lord I thank you for the gift of breath, eyes to see, ears to hear, tongue to taste, nose to smell, mouth to speak, face to smile, voice to sing, body to dance, legs to walk, mind to think and hands to write.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Your life is the only journey, you travel unaided.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I am enthusiastic and optimistic.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Prayer is a sacred-communication.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Inspiration gives strength to do, what we are capable of doing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Lord I thank you for the wise-words and grace to write.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I know the Lord loves me.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In times of adversity, you will know those who truly love you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Eagerly examine the Scriptures daily for spiritual growth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Rise in great might to fulfill your special specific mission.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I am fully persuaded, what God’s promises, He faithfully performs.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Cast your anxious thoughts upon the Lord. He waits to hear you speak!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Fear not! God cares!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The greatest thing is to live a daring life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A willing heart, daring spirit!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Search deep within your soul, you will find strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I am graceful, joyful and wonderful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The Lord will deliver us from every chain of sin, slavery and bondage.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Read to find life treasures
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We came into existence with nothing. And, when our spirit departs, we will take nothing out of world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Great stories changed our heart and penetrated our soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Pray always and seek guidance from the Creator.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The light radiates from divine soul..
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Affirm the Scripture to revive your spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Success is a steadily progress.You can make steadily progress in all spheres of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
With certainty, courage and commitment, the dream will be a reality.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Once the light shines on your path, you will see clearly.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Never complain, pray for strength to overcome the difficulty.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Why don’t you dare the impossible?
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Pray, read and mediate on the Scripture.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You can gain self-confidence, with the prayerful life, reading and mediation on the Scripture.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You ought to dare impossible things. These will be possible by ceaseless reliance on a higher power.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Never act in fear nor lose hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Every action is grace divine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Always look deep into your soul for the greatest strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The deepest comfort comes from the divine self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Look to the Lord and the power of His grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We have nothing to lose in this life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We came with nothing into the world. And certainly, we will take nothing out of it, when our spirit departs.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You must choose a positive response to any situation. This is the first action to conquer it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You must choose a positive response to any situation. This is the step action to conquer it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May God give you overflowing grace for every good work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Lord I thank you blessing me with food, clothing and shelter.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Lord I thank you for the gift of breath, eyes to see, ears to hear, tongue to taste, nose to smell; mouth to speak, face to smile, voice to sing, body to dance, legs to walk, mind to think and hands to write.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be the music of your soul. Don't be a pawn in someone else's game.
— Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
It is less about becoming a better person, and more of being better, as a person.
— J.R. Rim
Do not give in to fear and lose hope. Be strong!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A prayer and positive affirmation are the keys for a divine intervention in any situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The action you will take today, will define tomorrow.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Focus on the timeless blessings in life
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Gratitude is a spiritual heaven.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We held on to great memories. This sustains us in every moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Baby, you must dance to the music of your soul!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Challenges exist in life; don’t be afraid, there is grace for triumphant.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Imagination is manifest of thoughts by divine force.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Hope is a flourishing flower.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Without continuous encouragement, we may give up.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be passionately devoted to your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The sacred path leads to destiny destination.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Every endured challenge is a new strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May you find the grace to chase your dream with all your might
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Gratitude is a gladness of soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I wish you
— Courage to dream.Confidence to chase your dream.Commitment to eagerly achieve the dream.
A joyful soul is the choice to dwell on amazing gift of life than the challenges.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I pray for humble spirit and a willing heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Every day is predetermined by God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May God deliver you from every darkness to the glorious light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Money can cloud your vision. Sometimes, God takes away the money and uses times of adversity to refine us like gold.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
We perceive our circumstances as good or bad. The circumstances in themselves are powerless unless we attach our emotions to them.A boyfriend and girlfriend witnessing the sunset together find it so very romantic. But if they are forced to stay separately, the same sunset causes pain since they are apart.A man dying of terminal illness finds it as a signal of death.A depressed man finds it as "one more day gone".A poet finds poetry in the sunset.A painter finds beautiful shades in it.It's the same sunset but the perceptions are different.Learn to see a situation as just a situation. Neither good nor bad. Then there is no pain. No ecstasy.Learn to just BE. Don't try to BE.Love and Peace to All!!!
— Rahul Bijlaney
We all have a dual nature,some of us are just better able to control the energy we expend on each part of it." Lessons for an Urban Goddess
— Laney Zukerman
Introspect.You know yourself more each day,Yet, you find out how little you know yourself too.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, This Is My Life
I've been through a lot, but I stayed true to who I am.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, This Is My Life
I will pursue my dreams wholeheartedly.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
God hears and answers every prayer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Whatever happens to you, once you have hope you will survive.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
God takes us through the fires to refine us like gold.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Enthusiasm and endurance are the greatest spirits of great accomplishments.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In times of trouble, wait for the Lord to defend you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Don't Live in the Darkness of Fear, Abandon Fear and Live in Joy!
— Darwun St. James, T+E=C a formula for happiness
Only God can satisfy and set us free.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May God be your strong defender.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
I take pleasure in an excellent work done.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Embrace each day with divine expectation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Never give up. You must persist!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We shall not fail. The dream will be fulfilled.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
— Bob Marley
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
People haven't always been there for me but music always has.
— Taylor Swift
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
— Maya Angelou
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
— Albert Einstein
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
— Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
— Victor Hugo, Hugo's Works: William Shakespeare
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.
— Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Where words leave off, music begins.
— Heinrich Heine
Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. 
— Maya Angelou
Play it fuckin' loud!
— Bob Dylan
Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.
— Taylor Swift
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
— Johnny Depp
Songs are as sad as the listener.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
My ambition was to live like music.
— Mary Gaitskill
Next to music, beer was best.
— Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
— Bob Dylan
Where words fail, music speaks.
— Hans Christian Andersen
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
— Aaron Copland
If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.
— Gerard Way
Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.
— Tori Amos, Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
— Leopold Stokowski
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
— Tom Waits
If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.
— Emma Goldman
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
— Modest Mouse, Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
— Leonard Bernstein
Asleep by the SmithsVapour Trail by RideScarborough Fair by Simon & GarfunkelA Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol HarumDear Prudence by the BeatlesGypsy by Suzanne VegaNights in White Satin by the Moody BluesDaydream by Smashing PumpkinsDusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!)MLK by U2Blackbird by the BeatlesLandslide by Fleetwood MacAsleep by the Smiths (again!)-Charlie's mixtape
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Who hears music, feels his solitudePeopled at once.
— Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning
I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that they can’t hide.
— Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Information is not knowledge.Knowledge is not wisdom.Wisdom is not truth.Truth is not beauty.Beauty is not love.Love is not music.Music is THE BEST.
— Frank Zappa
For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one
—  the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!
Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.
— Frank Zappa
the past is only the future with the lights on.
— Blink-182, Blink 182
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
— Bob Dylan
Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.
— Ellen DeGeneres, My Point... And I Do Have One
Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors...Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat...What then was music created for?Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves?I think I know.
— Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not . . . for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating.
— Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.
— Douglas Adams
The music is not in the notes,but in the silence between.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
— Oscar Wilde
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
— Frank Zappa, Real Frank Zappa Book
If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart.
— Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift: Piano Play-Along Volume 95
There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.
— Tom Waits
Music is the strongest form of magic.
— Marilyn Manson
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
— Robert  Fripp
What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?
— Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
— Kahlil Gibran
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
— Lao Tzu
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably ...
— Nick Hornby, Songbook
Studies show:Intelligent girls are more depressedBecause they knowWhat the world is really likeDon't think for a beat it makes it betterWhen you sit her down and tell herEverything gonna be all rightShe knows in society she either isA devil or an angel with no in betweenShe speaks in the third personSo she can forget that she's me
— Emilie Autumn
Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
— Maria Augusta von Trapp
Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Who are you to judge the life i livei know i'm not perfect and i don't live to be.but before you start pointing fingersmake sure your hands are clean.
— Jimi Hendrix
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
— Bono, On the Move
I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.
— Lady Gaga
For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.
— Lois Lowry, The Giver
And I remember when I met him, it was so clear that he was the only one for me. We both knew it, right away. And as the years went on, things got more difficult – we were faced with more challenges. I begged him to stay. Try to remember what we had at the beginning.He was charismatic, magnetic, electric and everybody knew it. When he walked in every woman’s head turned, everyone stood up to talk to him. He was like this hybrid, this mix of a man who couldn’t contain himself. I always got the sense that he became torn between being a good person and missing out on all of the opportunities that life could offer a man as magnificent as him. And in that way, I understood him and I loved him.I loved him, I loved him, I loved him.And I still love him. I love him.
— Lana Del Rey
Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
— Tom Petty
Never underestimate a girl’s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won’t defend them to her death. Because it’s not just the music that makes that band her favorite. It’s the guys, the gals. It’s the fans. People whom of which she has interacted with thanks to the band. That band might of saved her life, or just made her smile everyday. That band has never broke her heart and has yet to leave her. No wonder she finds such joy in her music.
— Alex Gaskarth
When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.
— Bob Dylan
THAT crazed girl improvising her music.Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,Her soul in division from itselfClimbing, falling She knew not where,Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declareA beautiful lofty thing, or a thingHeroically lost, heroically found.No matter what disaster occurredShe stood in desperate music wound,Wound, wound, and she made in her triumphWhere the bales and the baskets layNo common intelligible soundBut sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea
— W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Tell me what you listen to, and I'll tell you who you are.
— Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star
It's just nice, I guess. Knowing that someone else can put into words what I feel. That there are people who have been through things worse than I have, and they come out on the other side okay. Not only that, but they made some kind of twisted, fucked-up sense of the completely senseless. They made it mean something. These songs tell me I'm not alone. If you look at it at that way, music... music can see you through anything.
— Hannah Harrington, Saving June
Give me a shot to rememberAnd you can take all the pain away from meA kiss and I will surrenderThe sharpest lives are the deadliest to leadA light to burn all the empiresSo bright the sun is ashamed to rise and beAnd I'm in love with all of those vampiresSo you can leave like the sane abandoned me
— Gerard Way
Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. You find yourself saying things like "I didn't know that part was so ugly." Or "I better get a professional opinion about that." You go to bed hollow and then back into the operating room the next day. . .facing every fear, every disgusting thing you hate about yourself. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform. . . you perform like your life depended on it----and in those perfect moments you find beauty you never knew existed. You find yourself and you friends all over again, you find something to fight for, something to love. Something to show the world.
— Gerard Way
Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it
— John Lennon
The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.
— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.
— Taylor Swift
Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
this song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please die.
— Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
— Michael  Jackson
Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.
— Prince
Music can change the world because it can change people.
— Bono
I see my life in terms of music.
— Albert Einstein
If you feel so emptySo used up, so let downIf you feel so angrySo ripped off so stepped onYou're not the only oneRefusing to back downYou're not the only oneSo get up
— Three Days Grace, Three Days Grace
I believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.
— Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life
Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
— Pat Conroy, Beach Music
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
— G.K. Chesterton
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.
— Albert Schweitzer
I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.
— Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing
It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
— Plato, The Republic
Am I the reason you breatheOr am I the reason you cry?
— Saliva
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
— Frank Zappa
So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.
— Tori Amos
Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
— Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.
— Stephen King, The Stand
I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.
— Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
— Paul McCartney
Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.
— Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.
— Charles  Hart, The Phantom of the Opera: Piano/Vocal
Don't be a drag.Just be a queen.
— Lady Gaga
...sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same...
— The Fray
If I cannot fly, let me sing.
— Stephen Sondheim
The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy and youth, but perhaps, of dreams. They listened to the music, each hearing it in his own way, feeling relaxed and a part of the music, a part of each other, and almost a part of the world. 
— Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.
— Vera Nazarian
Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing
— Led Zeppelin
When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.
— Ani DiFranco
Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day,Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,and silently steal away.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. 
— Nic Sheff, Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savor each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the music of the night.
— Charles  Hart, The Phantom of the Opera: Piano/Vocal
My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.
— Lady Gaga
Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.
— E.Y. Harburg
I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.
— Lady Gaga
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?
— Orson Scott Card
Singing songs that make you slit your wrists
— Gerard Way
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
— John Cage
There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Five Orange Pips
I am what I am Are you what you are or What?
— Alanis Morissette
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
— Karl Lagerfeld
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.
— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.
— Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
Every life has a sound
— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor feel like everything, like the world, wasn't what she'd thought it was. And that was a good thing. That was the greatest thing.
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
— Keith Richards, According to the Rolling Stones
She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses?
— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul
— Christina Perri
He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
— Billy Wilder
Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.
— Kanye West
I was in the winter of my life- and the men I met along the road were my only summer. At night I fell sleep with vision of myself dancing and laughing and crying with them. Three year down the line of being on an endless world tour and memories of them were the only things that sustained me, and my only real happy times. I was a singer, not very popular one, who once has dreams of becoming a beautiful poet- but upon an unfortunate series of events saw those dreams dashed and divided like million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again- sparkling and broken. But I really didn’t mind because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what true freedom is.When the people I used to know found out what I had been doing, how I had been living- they asked me why. But there’s no use in talking to people who have a home, they have no idea what its like to seek safety in other people, for home to be wherever you lied you head.I was always an unusual girl, my mother told me that I had a chameleon soul. No moral compass pointing me due north, no fixed personality. Just an inner indecisiviness that was as wide as wavering as the ocean. And if I said that I didn’t plan for it to turn out this way I’d be lying- because I was born to be the other woman. I belonged to no one- who belonged to everyone, who had nothing- who wanted everything with a fire for every experience and an obssesion for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn’t even talk about- and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people- and finally I did- on the open road. We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.LIVE FAST. DIE YOUNG. BE WILD. AND HAVE FUN.I believe in the country America used to be. I belive in the person I want to become, I believe in the freedom of the open road. And my motto is the same as ever- *I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I’m at war with myself- I Ride. I Just Ride.*Who are you? Are you in touch with all your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself where you’re free to experience them?I Have.I Am Fucking Crazy. But I Am Free.
— Lana Del Rey
If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.
— Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. 
— Boris Vian
Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that it’s boring? You don’t have time for it?
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
— Jane Swan
I will never let you fallI'll stand up with you foreverI'll be there for you through it allEven if saving you sends me to heaven
— Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with 'Got To Get You Off My Mind', but then realised that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straight away, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to up it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs, and ... oh there are loads of rules.
— Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Everybody finished the song at different times. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand and when they had finished, he was one of those who clapped loudest. 'Ah music,' he said, wiping his eyes. 'A magic beyond all we do here!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
— Igor Stravinsky
The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music.Then, the music speaks through the performance,and the performer and the listener will walk togetherwith the soul of the composer, and withGod.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road,I guess that's what they call character,I guess that's just the way it goes,better to be dusty than polished,like some store window mannequin,why don't you touch me where i'm rusty,let me stain your hands
— Ani DiFranco
Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.
— Jay-Z
My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them.
— Lady Gaga
Can't you see that it's just raining?There ain't no need to go outside.
— Jack Johnson
..my music isn't just music- its medicine.
— Kanye West
Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me  'cause im telling you the truth  I mean this im okay  Trust me...  Im not okay  ...Well okay im not okay. Im not o-f cking-kay
— Gerard Way
You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.
— Pete Wentz
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
— Eric Clapton
This machine kills fascists.
— Woody Guthrie
Give me love like her'Cause lately I've been waking up alonePaint splattered teardrops on my shirtTold you I'd let you goAnd that I'll fight my cornerMaybe tonight I'll call youAfter my blood turns into alcoholNo I just wanna hold youGive a little time to me or burn this outWe'll play hide and seek to turn this aroundAll I want is the taste that your lips allowMy, my, my, my oh give me love
— Ed Sheeran
So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.
— Lady Gaga
Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented satisfaction. But the worst temptations are those we give in to without getting anything in return except for the brutal discovery of our weakness.
— Paolo Maurensig
This will be our reply to violence:to make music more intensely,more beautifully,more devotedly than ever before.
— Leonard Bernstein
No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer and tremulous into the circle of light our fire had made. The music moved like a spiderweb stirred by a gentle breath, it changed like a leaf twisting as it falls to the ground, and it felt like three years Waterside in Tarbean, with a hollowness inside you and hands that ached from the bitter cold.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.
— Napoléon Bonaparte
We throw stones though we live in glass houses,We talk shit like its a cross to bare.You're only relevant 'til you get older.Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer
— Alex Gaskarth
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.
— Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
There is nothing stable in the world
—  uproar's your only music.
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.
— Mark Twain
How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.
— Morrissey