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"A dimple in the chin a devil within." »Irish Proverb
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"We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to." »Hazrat Inayat Khan
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"Elvis Presley once said that I don't know anything about the music. It is because he is the music itself! The nightingales don't know anything about the music!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"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 and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony." »Sir Thomas Browne
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"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals." »Homer
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"There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal" »The National, Paris, 1850
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"The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle." »Heinrich Heine
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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." »George Eliot
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"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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"Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music." »Friedrich von Schelling
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"music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music." »Marcel Marceau
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"My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often--in fact, mostly--at the expense of everything else in my life." »Stan Getz
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"Frank I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or be able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact I bought her a harp for christmas. She asked me what it was." »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
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"May not music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the music of reason?" »James Joseph Sylvester
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"Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum." »Jeffrey Vlaming
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"You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish." »Virgil Thompson
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"Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell." »Dave Matthews, VH1 Special: Trey And Dave Go To Africa
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"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here" »J. K. Rowling
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"There are more bad musicians than there is bad music." »Isaac Stern
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"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." »Elvis Presley
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"Those who hear not the music. . . think the dancers mad." »Unknown
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"music is well said to be the speech of angels." »Thomas Carlyle
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"I hate music, especially when it's played." »Jimmy Durante
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"Without music, life would be a mistake." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable." »Samuel Johnson
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"Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music." »Nikki Harris
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"Philosophy is the highest music." »Plato
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"The earth has music for those who listen." »William Shakespeare
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"Life without music would be a mistake." »Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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