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If
only we could have a wealth of literature and music
and art that would inspire and encourage us and show
us how wonderful peace on earth could be, perhaps
we would be more excited about working together to
create a better world. If you are a writer, artist,
musician or filmmaker, and you dream of peace on earth,
please use your creativity to help create a better
world.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
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Music
was my refuge.
I could crawl into the space between the notes
and curl my back to loneliness.
-- Maya
Angelou
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Music
can change the world because it can change people.
-- Bono
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“Music
is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes,
then shelter, then music.”
-- Christian Nevell Bovee
"In
family life, love is the oil that eases friction,
the cement that binds closer together, and the music that
brings harmony."
-- Eva Burrows
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Like
music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
~
Jimmy
Carter
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Music
is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things
to the heart.
-- Pablo
Casals
Music
will save the world.
-- Pablo
Casals
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"Music can speak louder than words, and I will use
my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere."
-- Judy
Collins
Most
of what we take as being important is not material,
whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things
we can't really see or touch. They're not material,
but they're vitally important to us.
--
Judy
Collins
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Music
is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows
you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you
are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to
share it with someone else.
-- Wayne Coyne
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Creativity
and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far
beyond just making music for the sake of music.
-- Herbie
Hancock
Music
happens to be an art form that transcends language.
-- Herbie
Hancock
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If there is something to be changed in this world,
then it can only happen through music. .
-- Jimi
Hendrix
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After
silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the
inexpressible is music.
~ Aldous
Huxley |
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was very fortunate to have learned the transforming
power of music early in life. As an adult I want
to share that power by inspiring people to care
about their neighbors near and far. Being a UNICEF
Ambassador allows me this kind of opportunity."
--
India.Arie
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"The
songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and
HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those
songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's
real."
-- India.Arie
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If peace…only
had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.
-- Sophie Kerr
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"It
is not enough to say 'We must not wage war.' It is
necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it … We
must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a
cosmic melody that is far superior to the discord
of war."
--
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Music
in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-- Lao Tzu
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Music
has always been transnational;
-- Yo-Yo
Ma
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“Emancipate
yourselves
from mental slavery.
None but ourselves
can free our minds.
Won't you help to sing
The songs of freedom?”
-- Bob
Marley
One
good thing about music,
when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-- Bob
Marley
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"The
beautiful in life...
Some talk of it in poetry,
Some grow it from the soil,
Some build it in a steeple,
Some show it through their toil.
Some breathe it into music,
Some mold it into art,
Some shape it into bread loaves...
Some hold it in their hearts."
-- Bernard Meltzer
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"I've
always felt that music finds its natural place within
people and should not be restricted to a specific physical
place. It is vital that today's musicians become proactive
in advocating for music and the arts."
-- Midori
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"I
have been so lucky to receive so much love from those
who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as
much of it as I can back to children."
-- Nana
Mouskouri
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“Kids don’t have a little brother working in the coal
mine, they don’t have a little sister coughing her
lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the
Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the
back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child
labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened
management. They were fought for, they were bled for,
they were died for by working people, by people like
us. Kids ought to know that. That’s why I sing these
songs. That’s why I tell these stories, dammit. No
root, no fruit!”
-- Utah
Phillips
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"I have
left almost to the last the magic of water, an element which
owing to its changefulness of form and mood and colour and
to the vast range of its effects is ever the principal source
of landscape beauty, and has like music a mysterious influence
over the mind."
-- Sir George Sitwell
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If a man does not keep 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
"Most
men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the
grave with the song still in them." -- Henry
David Thoreau
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
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The '60s was one of the first times the power of music
was used by a generation to bind them together.
-- Neil
Young
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