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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.
Author: H. A. Overstreet
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I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
Author: William Wordsworth
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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
Author: Sir Thomas Beecham
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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.
Author: Liam Gallagher
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Author: George Clemenceau
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Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
Author: Igor Stravinsky
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Author: Gottfried Leibniz
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Author: Benjamin Britten
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The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.
Author: Melissa Etheridge
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Author: Pat Conroy
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Author: Jules Combarieu
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Life without music would be a mistake.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Author: Noel Coward
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Author: Victor Hugo
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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Author: Red Auerbach
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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
Author: Mary Chapin Carpenter
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To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. - Talking to Myself.
Author: Pearl Bailey
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I don't believe in having bands for solo records.
Author: Mick Jagger
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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: Elvis Presley
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The high note is not the only thing.
Author: Placido Domingo
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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.
Author: George Gershwin
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.
Author: Arthur O'shaunessey
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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.
Author: Mark Twain
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Author: Maya Angelou
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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
Author: James Brown
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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
Author: Mariah Carey
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Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
Author: Ludwig Van Beethoven
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Author: Ludwig Van Beethoven
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