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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more.
Lord Byron
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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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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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One good thing about music
When it hits you
You feel no pain.
Bob Marley
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There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacings of the spheres.
Pythagoras
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron Copland
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.
Igor Stravinsky
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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
Thomas Mann
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
James Weldon Johnson
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We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag, and keep step to the music of the Union.
Rufus Choate
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The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of
Ned Rorem
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille
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Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
Variant translation: Music is the literature of the heart, it takes up communication where words stop.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives.
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
Edgard Varèse
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In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.
Augusta, Lady Gregory
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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Claude Debussy
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All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting
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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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Music is a part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
Boethius
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This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Leonard Bernstein
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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell
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Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.
Virgil Thomson
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