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Click on the name of each noted figure in history
to read their biography.
In Memorium
1958-2009
"I really believe that God chooses people to do certain things, the way Michelangelo
or Leonardo da Vinci or Mozart or Muhammad Ali or Martin Luther King is chosen. And that is their mission to do that thing.
And I think that I haven't scratched the surface yet of what my real purpose is for being here. I'm committed to my art. I
believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine.
And I believe that is the very reason for the exis-tence of art and what I do. And I feel fortunate in being that instrument
through which music flows.... Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra.
I believe that in its primordial form all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound, that it's music. You've
heard the expression, mu-sic of the spheres? Well, that's a very literal phrase. In the Gospels, we read, "And the Lord God
made man from the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man be-came a living soul." That
breath of life to me is the music of life and it permeates every fiber of creation. In one of the pieces of the Dangerous
album, I say: "Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood." This is a very literal
statement, because the same new miracle intervals and biological rhythms that sound out the architecture of my DNA also governs
the movement of the stars. The same music governs the rhythm of the seasons, the pulse of our heartbeats, the migration of
birds, the ebb and flow of ocean tides, the cycles of growth, evolution and dissolution. It's music, it's rhythm. And my goal
in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance. It's
like, my purpose, it's what I'm here for."
-Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson - Heal the World
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Michael Jackson - Gone Too Soon
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In Memorium
1935-2007
I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent,
and this is what I have devoted my life to.
Luciano Pavarotti - Rossini
The Barber of Seville (Figaro) - Largo al factotum
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Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun dorma (English: None shall sleep) aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot
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Luciano Pavarotti - Ave Maria
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In Memorium
1933-2007
When I sing full-on I use my whole body.
Robert Goulet - They Call The Wind Mariah
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Music is the silence between the notes.
What's best in music is not
to be found in the notes.
When I open my eyes, I can only sigh,
for what I see is contrary to my creed:
and I must despise the world for not perceiving that music is a higher revelation than any wisdom or philosophy.
It is the wine that inspires new creations.
Music
expresses that which can not be said
and
on which it is impossible to be silent.
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.
I get
most joy in life out of music.
Music is the harmonious voice of creation;
an echo of the invisible world.
Let us
describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better method than that
which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastics for the body and
music for the mind.
Music is a moral law.
It gives soul to the universe,
wings to the mind,
and flight to the imagination.
Music is the arithmetic
of sounds
as optics is the geometry
of light.
Without music life
would be a mistake.
Music is perpetual,
and only the hearing
is intermittent.
The earth has music for
those who listen.
Without
music,
life is
a journey through
a desert.
Music creates order
out of chaos: for rhythm
imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody
imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and
harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
Music was my refuge.
I could crawl into the space
between the notes
and curl my back to loneliness.
Music is well said
to be the speech of angels;
in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man
is felt to be so divine.
It brings
us near to the infinite.
I think music in itself
is healing.
It's an explosive
expression of humanity.
It's something we
are all touched by.
No matter what culture
we're from,
everyone loves music.
True music must repeat the thought
and inspirations of the
people and the time.
My people are Americans
and my time is today.
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language;
it was below and before speech,
and it is above and beyond all words.
A painter paints pictures on canvas.
But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Penn Trafford High School Warrior Marching Band
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