inspirational quotes about classical music

Here are some of the greatest minds in history who were touched and inspired by classical music and their inspiring words to describe it.

Tony Bennett: ‘In the 1920s and ’30s, there was a renaissance in music that was the equivalent of the artistic Renaissance. Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and others created the best songs ever written. These are classics... This is classical music’

Albert Einstein: "I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin."

St Augustine: "To sing is to pray twice."

Plato: "Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul."

John Dryden: "What passion cannot music raise and quell!"

John Milton: "Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie."

Maya Angelou: "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

Hans Christian Andersen: "Where words fail, music speaks."

Leo Tolstoy: "Music is the shorthand of emotion."

John Keats: "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. Therefore, ye soft pipes, play on."

Heinrich Heine: "When words leave off, music begins."

George Bernard Shaw: "Hell is full of musical amateurs."

Aldous Huxley: "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

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