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These girls will remember this night for the rest of their lives. The music. The excitement. The beachballs flying above the swaying, dancing crowd. They will read about the explosion that didn't happen in the newspapers, but to the young, tragedies that don't happen are only dreams.
The memories: they're the reality.

Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion — the relations between one thing and another. Humanity goes.

When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around — the music and the ideas.

Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'

William Shakespeare

The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.

Albert Einstein

[Music] a pederast might hum when raping a choirboy.

What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is wonderful that they were ever uttered. They are few and rare indeed, but, like a strain of music, they are incessantly repeated and modulated by the memory. All other words crumble off with the stucco which overlies the heart. We should not dare to repeat these now aloud. We are not competent to hear them at all times.

Henry David Thoreau

This World is not Conclusion.
A Species stands beyond —
Invisible, as Music —
But positive, as Sound.

Emily Dickinson

He that hath no musical instruction is a child in Music; he that hath no letters is a child in Learning; he that is untaught is a child in Life.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.

Rabindranath Tagore

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.

Albert Einstein

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that.... I believe in what I do, and I'll say that.

Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.

William Shakespeare

What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October...

Friedrich Nietzsche

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus:
Let no such man be trusted.

William Shakespeare

It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

Albert Einstein

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.