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Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Author: Beethoven
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The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Author: Leonard Bernstein
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
Author: Sir Thomas Beecham
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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.'
Author: Aaron Copeland
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I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Author: Elvis Presley
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Author: G K Chesterton
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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Author: Kin Hubbard
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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.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
Author: George Eliot
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Author: Aldous Huxley
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.
Author: Visions of Gregorian Chants
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Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Author: Leonard Bernstein
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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. •Robert Fripp 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.
Author: Robert Fripp
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Author: Aaron Copeland
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
Author: Jonathan Edwards
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All the sounds of the earth are like music.
Author: Oscar Hammerstein II
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Author: Robert Fripp
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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.
Author: Montaigne
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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
Author: Lord Erskine
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Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune.
Author: Kin Hubbard
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the blackberry bees
reorchestrate their chant.
Author: Robert Priddy
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As the longfingered sun
reaches out to touch
a cloistered trillium
or a lake trembles in
the light of moon and stars
so can a poet's long rainbow
of words
play our heartstrings from afar.
Author: Saiom Shriver
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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
Author: Aretha Franklin
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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
Author: Billy Gibbons
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A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. - Guide to Good Leadership.
Author: Kenneth A. Wells
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Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
Author: Bryan Ferry
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Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Author: Isaac Stern
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Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?
Author: Michael Torke
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Author: Amiel
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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Author: Aldous Huxley
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Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
Author: Thomas Beecham
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The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
Author: Horace
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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When words leave off, music begins.
Author: Heinrich Heine
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Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare.
Author: Herbert Spencer
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Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.
Author: Gioacchino Rossini
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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Author: Lawrence Durrell
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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Author: Jean Paul Richter
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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.
Author: Jacques Attali
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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.
Author: Howard Dietz
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Mozart is sweet sunshine.
Author: Antonin Dvorak
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Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
Author: Matthew Prior
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. - Waiting for God.
Author: Simone Weil
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When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
Author: Aaron Copland
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
Author: Harlan Howard
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