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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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"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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"Silence is more musical than any song." »Christina G. Rossetti
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"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness." »Don Marquis
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs." »George Bernard Shaw
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." »George Santayana
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"We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval" »George Santayana
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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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"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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"Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock." »John Barrymore
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"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization." »Georges Clemenceau
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"The interval is immense between corporeal qualifications and sciences: the body in a moment is extinct, but knowledge endureth to the end of time." »The Hitopadesa
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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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"The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience." »John Updike
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"The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism." »John Calhoun
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity." »George Santayana
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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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"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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