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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
-Pau (Pablo) Casals
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I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.
-Pau (Pablo) Casals
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Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity...
-Pau (Pablo) Casals
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The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.
-Pau (Pablo) Casals
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
-E. M. Cioran
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
-Jean Cocteau
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Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
N.B.: This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast.
-William Congreve
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
-Pat Conroy
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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
-Alistair Cooke
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The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.
-Billy Corgan
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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
-Bill Cosby
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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
-Noel Coward
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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
-Miles Davis
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Collect impressions. Don
-Claude Debussy
in a letter to his pupil Raoul Bardac, 1906
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There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.
-Claude Debussy
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Music is the space between the notes.
-Claude Debussy
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Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.
-Claude Debussy
The Engulfed Cathedral (La Cath
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Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
-Bruce Dickinson
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
-Denis Diderot
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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.
-Howard Dietz
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The high note is not the only thing.
-Placido Domingo
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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
-James Duffecy
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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
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Music is only love looking for words.
-Lawrence Durrell
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Books about Music
