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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #13 TRIMESTER #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 13 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR:
Confucius
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:

"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“All people require some sort of music in their lives to be happy.”
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DATE:
TUESDAY WEEK 13 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Edmund G. Brown
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:

"Rock music in its lyrics often talks ahead of the time about what's going on in the country."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:

“A way of expressing your political beliefs to a large group in an effective manner is through song. If you want to known what really is going on, listen to the peoples’ music.”
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DATE:
WEDNESDAY WEEK 13 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Richard Baker
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:

"The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:

“Man has a natural instinct of relating to music. Denying this instinct can be harmful.”
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DATE:
THURSDAY WEEK 13 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR:
Leigh Hunt
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:

"Music is the medicine of the breaking heart."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music can be used to express deep, sad feelings. The expression of those feeling help the healing process.”

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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 13 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: George Szell
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“To express your feelings musically and write the music down you must first intellectualize your feelings.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #12 TRIMESTER #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 12 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: John A. Logan
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music's the medicine of the mind."

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“We use medicine to help heal our bodies and music to help heal our souls.”

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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 12 TRIMESTER #2

AUTHOR: Arnold Bennett
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate."

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music helps to communicate deep thoughts that cannot be translated into words.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 12 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Robert G.Ingersoll
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words."

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Basic feelings and thoughts develop in human beings before speech and words. Music appeals to the basics.”

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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 12 TRIMESTER #2

AUTHOR: Leo Tolstoy
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music is the fastest way to express your emotion.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 12 TRIMESTER #2

AUTHOR: Robert Browning
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"There is no truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music."

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Through a person’s art (music) their true personality comes out.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #11 TRIMESTER #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 11 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Cervantes

QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"He who sings scares away his woes."
MEANING OF THE QUOTES:
“Music can often clear your mind of sorrows while you are playing and listening to it."

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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 11 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Leopold Stokowski

QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"A painter paints pictures on canvas but musicians paint their pictures on silence."

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Playing music over noise is like painting or drawing on a used piece of paper.”

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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 11 TRIMESTER #2

AUTHOR: Author Unknown
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music is what feelings sound like."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“It is hard to express through words what you are feeling in side but easier through music.”

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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 11 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: H.A. Overstreet

QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality."

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“No matter how different we are from someone else, what we all have in common is that we use music to express.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 11 TRIMESTER #2

AUTHOR: Edward Elgar
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require."

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music is everywhere and in everything so there is never a short supply.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #10 TRIMESTER #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 10 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Hans Christian Anderson

QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Where words fail, music speaks."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“There are often no words to express feelings that only music can portray.”

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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 10 TRIMESTER #2

AUTHOR: Edgar Watson Howe
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music can create in your imagination what can never exist in real life.”

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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 10 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: PlatoQUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue." 

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music is the science of sound which overheard results in the expression of some inner feeling of thought.”

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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 10 TRIMESTER #2

AUTHOR: Thomas Carlyle
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music."

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The elements of nature are all around us in nature; the pounding waves, heartbeats, the sound of the wind, to name a few.”-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 10 TRIMESTER #2

AUTHOR: Gustav Mahler
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“There are often no words that can communicate our deepest feelings in the way music can.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #09 TRIMESTER #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 09 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Mark Haugh

QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Life is about the betterment of the human condition, stretching one’s own mind, increasing social awareness, or even random acts of kindness that spills into the soul of humanity. This is why I play music."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music helps make the world we live in more pleasant.”

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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 09 TRIMESTER #2

AUTHOR: Claude Debussy
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music is the silence between the notes."

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“How silence is used determines the dramatic quality of the art.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 09 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Aaron Copland
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“It is our human nature to create music in some form and as long as humans survive, so will music.”

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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 09 TRIMESTER #2

AUTHOR: Percy Bysshe Shelley
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The sadder the feelings the most beautiful the music written about them.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 09 TRIMESTER #2

AUTHOR: Author Unknown
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"The earth has music for those who listen."

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The music of nature can be found in the sounds made by the wind, water, birds…to name a few.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #08 TRIMESTER #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 08 TRIMESTER #2AUTHOR: Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizQUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic."MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Rhythms of music come from the syllables of the words we speak. Rhythms are notated using mathematic.
symbols. So…all speech is math.”

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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 08 TRIMESTER #2AUTHOR: PlatoQUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"The music masters familiarizes children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life."MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Exposure to music at a young age makes for a well-adjusted adult.”------------------------------------------------------------------------
DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 08 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Jules CombarieuQUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music is the art of thinking with sounds."MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The sounds in music can communicate messages as words can in a book.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 08 TRIMESTER #2AUTHOR: Robbie Robertson
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music should never be harmless."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music is often used to communicate controversial issues and to make you think about them.”----------------------------------------------------------------------
DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 08 TRIMESTER #2AUTHOR: Benjamin Britten
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony."MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #07 TRIMESTER #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 07 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Agnes de Mile
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:

"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“You can learn a lot about any culture by how they express themselves through their art.”
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 07 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Eric Anderson
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit—enable them to see visions and dream dreams."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Education in the arts opens your mind and allows you to see more life style opportunities to participate in.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 07 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Samuel Butler
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."


MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“You can tell a lot about a person by the quality of their work.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 07 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR:
George Gershwin
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music reflects the time period it is created in.”
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DATE:
FRIDAY WEEK 07 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it."

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Good music is considered “good” if every time you hear it you find something new to listen to in it.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #06 TRIMESTER #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 06 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Aaron Copland
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:

"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No'."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Meaning in music is expressed through the emotions for which there are often no words to describe.”
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DATE:
TUESDAY WEEK 06 TRIMESTER #2

AUTHOR: Artur Schnabel
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Pauses or silences between notes make sounds into music. How an artist expertly handles the timing of those pauses creates the drama.”
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DATE:
WEDNESDAY WEEK 06 TRIMESTER #2

AUTHOR: Pat Conroy
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Without music, life is a journey through a desert."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The music we listen to in life helps the ordinary become special, keeping life from becoming dull.”
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DATE:
THURSDAY WEEK 06 TRIMESTER #2

AUTHOR: E.Y. Harbug
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“A song is a combination of words and music so not only can you think a thought you can feel it as well.”
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DATE:
FRIDAY WEEK 06 TRIMESTER #2

AUTHOR: Zimbabwe Proverb
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:

“The elements of music and dance are present in everyone through normal everyday activities for which we are all experts.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY-WEEK #05 TRIMESTER #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 05 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR:
Van Morrison
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:

"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“When a person makes financial compensation through the creation of art it is difficult NOT to compromise the art for the sake of money.”

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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 05 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Plato
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety, and life to everything."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music adds the finishing touch to the elements of our lives.”

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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 05 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Maya Angelou
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Art is used to express the views of the artist. It has something to say, something important to communicate.”

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DATE:
THURSDAY WEEK 05 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Maya Angelou
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE: “
"While you listen to music your troubles seem to disappear.”
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DATE:
FRIDAY WEEK 05 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Author Unknown
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music is therapeutic. It is a way to release negative feelings that make you unhappy.”
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