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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.
-Buddy Holly
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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
-Harlan Howard
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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
-Elbert Hubbard
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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
-Victor Hugo
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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.
-James G. Huneker
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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.
-Michael Jackson
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The history of a people is found in its songs.
-George Jellinek
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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
-Billy Joel
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
-James Weldon Johnson
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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
-Samuel Johnson
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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
-Samuel Johnson
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'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
-Ben Jonson
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
-John Keats
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There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do; it speaks through our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up, it puts noble feelings in us, it can make us cringe; and it can melt us to tears; and yet we have no idea how. It is a language by itself, just as perfect in its ways as speech, as words, just as divine, just as blessed.
-Charles Kingsley
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-Paul Klee
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
-Walter Savage Landor
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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.
-Geoffrey Latham
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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
-John Lennon
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For a long time I wasn't listening to music, to the rock and roll stuff on the radio, because it would cause me to get sweaty--it would bring back memories I didn't want to know about, or I would get that feeling that I'm not alive 'cause I'm not making it. And if it was good, I hated it 'cause I wasn't doing it. And if it was bad, I was furious 'cause I could've done it better...
-John Lennon
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There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t.
-Annie Lennox
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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.
-Claude Levi-Strauss
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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.
-Claude Levi-Strauss
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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.
-Hal A. Lingerman
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Books about Music
