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Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent · Space Ghost, Space Ghost - Musical Bar-b-cue

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language. – Paul Valery
Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned. – George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of musical amateurs. – George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. – George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 3
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience. – John Cage
It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_. – Plato, from a footnote in The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar Allen Poe
Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry. – This Is Spinal Tap
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace. – Plato
Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold. – Susanne Millen
Silence is more musical than any song. – Christina G. Rossetti

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