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We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
Sergei Rachmaninov
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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 expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent
Victor Hugo
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
Plato
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
Edgar Watson Howe
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But Bellenden we needs must praise,
Who as down the stairs she jumps
Sings o'er the hill and far away,
Despising doleful dumps.
- Unattributed Author,
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: Distracted Jockey's Lamentation--Pills to Purge Melancholy, found in "The Nursery Rhymes of England"
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Tom he was a piper's son,
He learned to play when he was young;
Bug all the tune that he could play
Was "Over the hills and far away."
- Unattributed Author,
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: Distracted Jockey's Lamentation--Pills to Purge Melancholy, found in "The Nursery Rhymes of England"
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Music religious heat inspires,
It wakes the soul, and lifts it high,
And wings it with sublime desires,
And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
Joseph Addison
Quotes , Source: A Song for St. Cecilia's Day (st. 4)
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Music exalts each joy, allays each grief,
Expels diseases, softens every pain,
Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.
John Armstrong
Quotes , Source: Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 512)
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That rich celestial music thrilled the air
From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged
Eastward and westward, making bright the night.
Edwin Arnold
Quotes , Source: Light of Asia (bk. IV, l. 418)
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Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth
Symphony will remain.
Mikhail Bakunin
Quotes , Source: about Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
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Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the
cornerstone thereof;
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God
shouted for joy?
Bible
Quotes , Source: Job (ch. XXXVIII, v. 6-7)
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We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Psalms (ch. CXXXVII, v. 2)
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God is its author, and not man; he laid
The key-note of all harmonies; he planned
All perfect combinations, and he made
Us so that we could hear and understand.
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
Quotes , Source: Music
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The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush
When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh
That filters through the forest, or the gush
That swells and sinks amid the branches high,--
'Tis all the music of the wind, and we
Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
Quotes , Source: Music
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"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast,"
And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.
Rev. James Bramston
Quotes , Source: Man of Taste, first line quoted from Prior
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And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note
which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument;
for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or
proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the
spheres.
Sir Thomas Browne
Quotes , Source: Religio Medici (pt. II, sec. IX)
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