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“Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh, as he sits by the river,
Making a poet out of a man.
The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain--
For the reed that grows never more again
As a reed with the reeds of the river.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: A Musical Instrument
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“Her voice, the music of the spheres,
So loud, it deafens mortals' ears;
As wise philosophers have thought,
And that's the cause we hear it not.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 617)
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“For discords make the sweetest airs.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 919)
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“Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto
Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Beppo (st. 32)
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“Music arose with its voluptuous swell,
Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again,
And all went merry as a marriage bell.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 21)
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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 (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XV, st. 5)
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“And hears thy stormy music in the drum!”
Thomas Campbell Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. I)
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“Life is a song. Love is the music.”
Anonymous Quotes |
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“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.”
Elvis Presley Quotes |
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“Wagner's music is better than it sounds.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“Music inflames temperament.”
Jim Morrison Quotes |
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“Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favorite things.”
Oscar Hammerstein Quotes |
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“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”
Groucho Marx Quotes |
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“Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.”
Samuel Butler Quotes |
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“Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.”
Frank Zappa Quotes |
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“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Music is the art of thinking with sounds.”
Jules Combarieu Quotes |
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“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes |
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“Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.”
Richard Strauss Quotes |
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“Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.”
Henry Louis Mencken Quotes |
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“Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.”
Fred Rogers Quotes |
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“See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?”
Will Rogers Quotes |
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“There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
Michel de Montaigne Quotes |
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“Work is a four-letter word.”
Morrissey Quotes |
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