“All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.”
Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Source: Heart-Shaped Box
“A few can touch the magic string,
And noisy Fame is proud to win them;
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!”
The Voiceless; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“So listen to them, heed them: Who never touch the earth, can never be in heaven.”
Adam Mickiewicz book Dziady
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“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
Variant: All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister