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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,
Author: Unattributed Author
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,
Author: Unattributed Author
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.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: A Song for St. Cecilia's Day (st. 4)
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[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.
Author: Conrad Potter Aiken (used pseudonym Samuel Jeake, Jr.)
Source: at a musical concert
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Music exalts each joy, allays each grief,
Expels diseases, softens every pain,
Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.
Author: John Armstrong
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.
Author: Edwin Arnold
Source: Light of Asia (bk. IV, l. 418)
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Music tells no truths.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. A Village Feast)
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Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth
Symphony will remain.
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
Source: about Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
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Rugged the breast that music cannot tame.
Author: John Codrington Bampfylde
Source: Sonnet in Praise of Delia
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If music and sweet poetry agree.
Author: Richard Barnfield
Source: Sonnet
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Gayly the troubadour
Touched his guitar.
Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly
Source: Welcome Me Home
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I'm saddest when I sing.
Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly
Source: You think I have a merry heart
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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?
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. XXXVIII, v. 6-7)
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We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
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.
Author: John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
Source: Music
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"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast,"
And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.
Author: Rev. James Bramston
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.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Religio Medici (pt. II, sec. IX)
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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.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 617)
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For discords make the sweetest airs.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto XV, st. 5)
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And hears thy stormy music in the drum!
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. I)
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Life is a song. Love is the music.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Author: Elvis Presley
Source: None
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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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Music inflames temperament.
Author: Jim Morrison
Source: None
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Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favorite things.
Author: Oscar Hammerstein
Source: None
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Author: Groucho Marx
Source: None
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Author: Samuel Butler
Source: None
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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.
Author: Frank Zappa
Source: None
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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
Source: None
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Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
Author: Jules Combarieu
Source: None
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Source: None
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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.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
Author: Richard Strauss
Source: None
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Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
Source: None
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Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
Author: Fred Rogers
Source: None
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See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
Author: Will Rogers
Source: None
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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: Michel de Montaigne
Source: None
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Work is a four-letter word.
Author: Morrissey
Source: None
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There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Source: None
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Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Author: Howard Dietz
Source: None
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When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
Author: Tommy Lee
Source: None
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The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.
Author: Henry Mitchell
Source: None
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Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
Author: Melvin Maddocks
Source: None
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May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
Author: Frank Sinatra
Source: None
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I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'
Author: Igor Stravinsky
Source: None
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