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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life." »Stephen
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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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"Silence is more musical than any song." »Christina G. Rossetti
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs." »George Bernard Shaw
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"If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world." »Chinese Proverb
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned." »George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 3
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"Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold." »Susanne Millen
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note." »Doug Floyd
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"God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists." »Albert Einstein
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"Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody." »Henry David Thoreau
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"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads." »Albert Camus
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"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." »Carl Sagan
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"Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony." »Heraclitus
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"Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony." »Seneca
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"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent." »John Dewey
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"Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony." »Seneca
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"One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life." »Etty Hilsum
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"Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration." »Charles Dudley Warner
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"Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign." »William Cowper
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"Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord." »Sallust
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"...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
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"Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth." »Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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"There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this." »Miyamoto Musashi
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