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Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
-Charlie Parker
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
-Walter Pater
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You don't need any brains to listen to music.
-Luciano Pavarotti
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
-Samuel Pepys
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What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile. Fix me a toddy, Lola, and we'll sit on the gallery of Tara and you play a tune and we'll watch evening fall and lightning bugs wink in the purple meadow.
-Walker Percy
Love in the Ruins
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
-Plato
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
-Plato
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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.
-Ezra Pound
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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.
-Ezra Pound
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I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-Elvis Presley
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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
-Zimbabwe Proverb
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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
-Bonnie Raitt
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He had always wanted to write Music and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he told himself, listen to the first phrases of Tchaikowsky's First Concerto, or the last movement of Rachmaninoff's Second. Men have not found the words for it nor the deed nor the thought, but they have found the Music. Let me see that in one single act of man on earth. Let me see it made real. Let me see the answer to the promise of that Music. Not servants nor those served; not altars and immolations; but the final, the fulfilled, innocent of pain. Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers - Show me yours - show me that it is possible - show me your achievement - and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
-Ayn Rand
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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
-Simon Rattle
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
-Keith Richards
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It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.
-Kevin Richardson
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Music should never be harmless.
-Robbie Robertson
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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
-Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
-John Ruskin
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Music is essentially useless, as life is.
-George Santayana
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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.
-Artur Schnabel
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When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow it was transformed for me into love.
-Franz Schubert
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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.
-Robert Alexander Schumann
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Music is the key to the female heart.
-Johann G. Seume
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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved 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
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Books about Music
