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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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"Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket." »Marge Piercy
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"[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket." »Marge Piercy
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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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"No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them." »Alan B. Watts
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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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"What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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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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"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." »Albert Einstein
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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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"Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either." »Jerry Coleman
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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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"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." »Albert Einstein
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"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." »Albert Einstein
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"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots." »George Santayana
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"The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it." »Navajo Chant
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"It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs." »Richard Needham
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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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"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems." »Sydney Harris
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"Once a new technology rolls over you, if your're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road." »Stewart Brand
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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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"What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem." »Eldridge Cleaver
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"The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen these qualities in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being." »Martha Beck
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"To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good." »Samuel Johnson
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"In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part." »Alexander Pope
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"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate." »Henry J. Tillman
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