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"Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune." »Phillips Brooks
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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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"Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Sometimes ... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. (Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan)" »Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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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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"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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"Playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"the Moon shows us only one side of its face and there is no man on Earth who can succeed this! Every man’s other face has its time to be seen!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation." »Kahlil Gibran
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"It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance." »Henri De Regnier
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"Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves." »Alfred North Whitehead
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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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"America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world." »George Herbert Walker Bush
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"the face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society." »Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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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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"One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask." »Yvette Gilbert, (1865-1944)
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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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"When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions." »Walter Lippmann
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"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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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