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* Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
--Sergei Rachmaninov
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* Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
--Paul McCartney
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* There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
--Frank Zappa
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* Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
--Louis-Hector Berlioz
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* Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
--Berthold Auerbach
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* Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
--Ludwig van Beethoven
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* Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
--Charlie Parker
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* Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
--Victor Hugo
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* Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
--Oscar Wilde
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* Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
--Paul Simon
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* Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
--Berthold Auerbach
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* A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
--Leopold Stokowski
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* Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
--John Lennon
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* 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.
--H. A. Overstreet
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* Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
--Herbie Hancock
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* An artist, in giving a concert, should not demand an entrance fee but should ask the public to pay, just before leaving as much as they like. From the sum he would be able to judge what the world thinks of him - and we would have fewer mediocre concerts.
--Kit Coleman
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* Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
--William F. Buckley
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* I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.
--Ray Charles
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* When words leave off, music begins.
--Heinrich Heine
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* There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
--Arthur Honegger
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* Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
--Henry Miller
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* Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up.
--Billy F. Gibbons
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* All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
--Thomas Carlyle
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* It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.
--Nick Hornby
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* If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
--Mencius
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* Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
--Voltaire
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* Without music life would be a mistake.
--Friedrich
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* Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
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* I wrote a song, but I can't read music. Every time I hear a new song on the radio I think, "Hey, maybe I wrote that.
--Stephen Wright
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* If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
--Gustav Mahler
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* Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
--Sergei Rachmaninov
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* Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?
--Michael Torke
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* Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
--Paul McCartney
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* And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
--Henry Wadsworth
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* There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.
--Mickey Hart
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* He who sings scares away his woes.
--Cervantes
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* There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.
--William P. Merrill
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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 is a safe kind of high.
--Jimi Hendrix
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* Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
--Benjamin Disraeli
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* To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.
--Quentin Tarantino
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* Music is what feelings sound like.
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* For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
--Reba McEntire
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* Music is the soul of language.
--Max Heindel
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* Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
--Ludwig van Beethoven
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* The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
--Duke Ellington
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* Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.
--Henry Van Dyke
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* Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
--Françoise Sagan
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* A good player can make any guitar sound good.
--Michael Bloomfield
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* Hell is full of musical amateurs.
--George Bernard Shaw
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* What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome melodic lie.... The soul's undersong. The orchestration of randomness, a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space.... a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.
--Stephen Dunn
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* Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
--Gilbert K. Chesterton
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* I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
--Adele
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* I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
--Elvis Presley
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* All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
--Frank Zappa
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* Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable on transmuting emotion into music...
--Carlos Santana
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* Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
--Harriet Beecher
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* There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
--Lord Byron
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* Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.
--Ray Charles
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* Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.
--Henri Rabaud
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* I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.
--Waylon Jennings
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* Music is the poetry of the air.
--Richter
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* I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
--Mick Jagger
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* There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
--Frank Zappa
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* If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
--Sydney Smith
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* Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
--Louis-Hector Berlioz
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* When the music changes, so does the dance.
--African Proverb
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* Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
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* There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.
--William P. Merrill
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* If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.
--Doménico Cieri
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* Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
--Henry David Thoreau
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* Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
--Ludwig van Beethoven
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* 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.
--Edward Elgar
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* Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
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* Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
--Charlie Parker
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* The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side...
--Hunter S. Thompson
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* I hate music, especially when it's played.
--Jimmy Durante
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* Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
--Ronald Reagan
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* Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
--Jean Paul Richter
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* Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
--Anais Nin
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* Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
--Henry Ward Beecher
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* Play the music, not the instrument.
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* Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
--Ludwig van Beethoven
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* Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
--Robert Fripp
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* An intellectual is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
--John Chesson
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* You are the music while the music lasts.
--T.S. Eliot
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* Music is the universal language of mankind.
--Henry Wadsworth
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* Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
--Ezra Pound
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* He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.
--Robert Browning
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* You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow.
--Oscar Levant
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* The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet.
--Oliver Herford
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* What we provide is an atmosphere... of orchestrated pulse which works on people in a subliminal way. Under its influence I've seen shy debs and severe dowagers kick off their shoes and raise some wholesome hell.
--Meyer Davis
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* Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
--Victor Hugo
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* where music dwells
Lingering - and wandering on as loth to die.
--William Wordsworth
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* Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
--Buffy
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* Music is an outburst of the soul.
--Frederick Delius
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* Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
--Oscar Wilde
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* In music the passions enjoy themselves.
--Nietzsche
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* Music is what life sounds like.
--Eric Olson
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* Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
--Arnold Bennett
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* All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
--Louis Armstrong
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* In music the passions enjoy themselves.
--Nietzsche
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* Music is what life sounds like.
--Eric Olson
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* Music is what feelings sound like.
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* Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
--Mary Kay Ash
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* Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
--Henri Frederic
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* Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
--Alphonse de Lamartine
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* I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else.
--Les Paul
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* One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
--Bob Marley
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* After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
--Alduos Huxley
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* Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
--Robert G. Ingersoll
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* Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
--Alphonse de Lamartine
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* There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased
With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
--William Cowper
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* Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
--Rainer Maria Rilke
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* Music is the shorthand of emotion.
--Leo Tolstoy
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* Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
--Anais Nin
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* There is no truer truth obtainable,By Man than comes of music.
--Robert Browning
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* Strong lager and some early Zep tunes. I ask thee, is there a better way to spend an evening?
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* Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
--Aaron Copland
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* What passion cannot music raise and quell!
--John Dryden
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* Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
--Paul Simon
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* Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
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* A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
--Benny Green
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* The city is built,
To music, therefore never built at all,
And therefore built forever.
--Alfred Lord Tennyson
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* Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven.
--Lawrence Duncan
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* Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
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* Rock music in its lyrics often talks ahead of the time about what's going on in the country.
--Edmund G. Brown
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* I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
--Elvis Presley
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* Music can noble hints impart,
Engender fury, kindle love,
With unsuspected eloquence can move,
And manage all the man with secret art.
--Joseph Addison
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* My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.
--Liberace
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* Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
--Alfred Lord Tennyson
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* 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.
--Richard Baker
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* Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
--John Philip Sousa
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* Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
--Leigh Hunt
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* Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
--Frank McKinney
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* Country music is three chords and the truth.
--Harlan Howard
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* I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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* Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar?
--Percy Bysshe
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* A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?
--Charles
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* The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
--Gottfried
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* A man's screech should exceed his rasp, or what's a violin for?
--Stuart Rogers
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* After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
--Aldous Huxley
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* Music is love in search of a word.
--Sidney Lanier
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* It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.
--Victor de LaPrade
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* Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
--Jean Paul Richter
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* All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it.
--Dave Barry
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* Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.
--William Green
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* If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
--Simon Rattle
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* Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
--Helmut Walcha
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* I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
--Lily Tomlin
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* The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.
--S.A. Sachs
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* Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
--Ludwig van Beethoven
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* Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
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* Music's the medicine of the mind.
--John A. Logan
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* Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
--Thomas Carlyle
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* The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.
--Dave Barry
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* The pause is as important as the note.
--Truman Fisher
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* Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
--Edward George Bulwer
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* Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. MUSIC IS BEST.
--Frank Zappa
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* If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
--Lou Reed
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* Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
--Jules Combarieu
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* If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
--Louis Armstrong
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* Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
--Angela Monet
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* The thing you learn is that popular music is easy. The song will play itself. So all you need to do is make it sing a little, make it human, and not fuck it up.
--Lou Reed
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* I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.
--Willie Nelson
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* To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
--Aaron Copland
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* Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
--Edgar Winter
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* Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
--Lao Tzu
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* The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.
--Leonard Bernstein
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* Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
--Howard
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* I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
--Virgil Thomson
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* A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
--Henry Giles
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* The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
--Artur Schnabel
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* Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it’s really a stupid thing to want to do.
--Elvis Costello
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* Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
--Sergei Rachmaninov
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
--Paul McCartney
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
--Frank Zappa
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
--Louis-Hector Berlioz
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
--Berthold Auerbach
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
--Ludwig van Beethoven
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
--Charlie Parker
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
--Victor Hugo
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
--Oscar Wilde
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
--Paul Simon
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
--Berthold Auerbach
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
--Leopold Stokowski
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
--John Lennon
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* 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.
--H. A. Overstreet
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
--Herbie Hancock
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* An artist, in giving a concert, should not demand an entrance fee but should ask the public to pay, just before leaving as much as they like. From the sum he would be able to judge what the world thinks of him - and we would have fewer mediocre concerts.
--Kit Coleman
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
--William F. Buckley
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.
--Ray Charles
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* When words leave off, music begins.
--Heinrich Heine
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
--Arthur Honegger
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
--Henry Miller
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up.
--Billy F. Gibbons
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
--Thomas Carlyle
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.
--Nick Hornby
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
--Mencius
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
--Voltaire
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Without music life would be a mistake.
--Friedrich
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* I wrote a song, but I can't read music. Every time I hear a new song on the radio I think, "Hey, maybe I wrote that.
--Stephen Wright
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
--Gustav Mahler
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
--Sergei Rachmaninov
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?
--Michael Torke
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
--Paul McCartney
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
--Henry Wadsworth
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.
--Mickey Hart
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* He who sings scares away his woes.
--Cervantes
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.
--William P. Merrill
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
--Maya Angelou
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Music is a safe kind of high.
--Jimi Hendrix
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
--Benjamin Disraeli
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.
--Quentin Tarantino
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Music is what feelings sound like.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
--Reba McEntire
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Music is the soul of language.
--Max Heindel
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
--Ludwig van Beethoven
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
--Duke Ellington
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.
--Henry Van Dyke
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
--Françoise Sagan
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* A good player can make any guitar sound good.
--Michael Bloomfield
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Hell is full of musical amateurs.
--George Bernard Shaw
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome melodic lie.... The soul's undersong. The orchestration of randomness, a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space.... a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.
--Stephen Dunn
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
--Gilbert K. Chesterton
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
--Adele
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
--Elvis Presley
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
--Frank Zappa
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable on transmuting emotion into music...
--Carlos Santana
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
--Harriet Beecher
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
--Lord Byron
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* Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.
--Ray Charles
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* Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.
--Henri Rabaud
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* I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.
--Waylon Jennings
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* Music is the poetry of the air.
--Richter
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* I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
--Mick Jagger
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* There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
--Frank Zappa
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* If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
--Sydney Smith
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* Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
--Louis-Hector Berlioz
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* When the music changes, so does the dance.
--African Proverb
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* Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
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* There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.
--William P. Merrill
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* If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.
--Doménico Cieri
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* Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
--Henry David Thoreau
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* Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
--Ludwig van Beethoven
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* 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.
--Edward Elgar
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* Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
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* Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
--Charlie Parker
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* The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side...
--Hunter S. Thompson
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* I hate music, especially when it's played.
--Jimmy Durante
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* Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
--Ronald Reagan
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* Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
--Jean Paul Richter
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* Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
--Anais Nin
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* Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
--Henry Ward Beecher
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* Play the music, not the instrument.
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* Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
--Ludwig van Beethoven
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* Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
--Robert Fripp
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* An intellectual is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
--John Chesson
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* You are the music while the music lasts.
--T.S. Eliot
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* Music is the universal language of mankind.
--Henry Wadsworth
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* Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
--Ezra Pound
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* He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.
--Robert Browning
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* You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow.
--Oscar Levant
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* The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet.
--Oliver Herford
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* What we provide is an atmosphere... of orchestrated pulse which works on people in a subliminal way. Under its influence I've seen shy debs and severe dowagers kick off their shoes and raise some wholesome hell.
--Meyer Davis
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* Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
--Victor Hugo
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* where music dwells
Lingering - and wandering on as loth to die.
--William Wordsworth
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* Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
--Buffy
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* Music is an outburst of the soul.
--Frederick Delius
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* Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
--Oscar Wilde
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* In music the passions enjoy themselves.
--Nietzsche
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* Music is what life sounds like.
--Eric Olson
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* Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
--Arnold Bennett
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* All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
--Louis Armstrong
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* In music the passions enjoy themselves.
--Nietzsche
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* Music is what life sounds like.
--Eric Olson
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* Music is what feelings sound like.
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* Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
--Mary Kay Ash
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* Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
--Henri Frederic
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* Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
--Alphonse de Lamartine
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* I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else.
--Les Paul
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* One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
--Bob Marley
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* After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
--Alduos Huxley
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* Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
--Robert G. Ingersoll
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* Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
--Alphonse de Lamartine
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* There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased
With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
--William Cowper
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* Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
--Rainer Maria Rilke
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* Music is the shorthand of emotion.
--Leo Tolstoy
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* Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
--Anais Nin
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* There is no truer truth obtainable,By Man than comes of music.
--Robert Browning
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* Strong lager and some early Zep tunes. I ask thee, is there a better way to spend an evening?
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* Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
--Aaron Copland
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* What passion cannot music raise and quell!
--John Dryden
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* Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
--Paul Simon
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* Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
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* A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
--Benny Green
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* The city is built,
To music, therefore never built at all,
And therefore built forever.
--Alfred Lord Tennyson
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* Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven.
--Lawrence Duncan
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* Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
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* Rock music in its lyrics often talks ahead of the time about what's going on in the country.
--Edmund G. Brown
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* I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
--Elvis Presley
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* Music can noble hints impart,
Engender fury, kindle love,
With unsuspected eloquence can move,
And manage all the man with secret art.
--Joseph Addison
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* My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.
--Liberace
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* Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
--Alfred Lord Tennyson
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* 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.
--Richard Baker
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* Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
--John Philip Sousa
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* Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
--Leigh Hunt
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* Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
--Frank McKinney
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* Country music is three chords and the truth.
--Harlan Howard
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* I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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* Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar?
--Percy Bysshe
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* A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?
--Charles
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* The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
--Gottfried
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* A man's screech should exceed his rasp, or what's a violin for?
--Stuart Rogers
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* After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
--Aldous Huxley
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* Music is love in search of a word.
--Sidney Lanier
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* It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.
--Victor de LaPrade
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* Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
--Jean Paul Richter
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* All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it.
--Dave Barry
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* Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.
--William Green
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* If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
--Simon Rattle
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* Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
--Helmut Walcha
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* I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
--Lily Tomlin
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* The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.
--S.A. Sachs
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* Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
--Ludwig van Beethoven
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* Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
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* Music's the medicine of the mind.
--John A. Logan
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* Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
--Thomas Carlyle
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* The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.
--Dave Barry
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* The pause is as important as the note.
--Truman Fisher
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* Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
--Edward George Bulwer
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* Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. MUSIC IS BEST.
--Frank Zappa
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* If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
--Lou Reed
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* Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
--Jules Combarieu
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* If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out.
--Louis Armstrong
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* Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
--Angela Monet
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* The thing you learn is that popular music is easy. The song will play itself. So all you need to do is make it sing a little, make it human, and not fuck it up.
--Lou Reed
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* I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.
--Willie Nelson
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* To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
--Aaron Copland
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* Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
--Edgar Winter
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* Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
--Lao Tzu
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* The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.
--Leonard Bernstein
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* Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
--Howard
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* I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
--Virgil Thomson
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* A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
--Henry Giles
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* The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
--Artur Schnabel
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* Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it’s really a stupid thing to want to do.
--Elvis Costello
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