Music Quotes
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Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.
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Some of the fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.
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Soprano, basso, even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.
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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
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The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . . reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music.
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The best sort of music is what it should be - sacred; the next best, the military, has fallen to the lot of the devil.
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The devil does not stay where music is.
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The highest graces of music flow from the feelings of the heart.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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The lines of poetry, the periods of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
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The man that hath not music in himself, and is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; let no man trust him.
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The meaning of song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that!
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The musician who always plays on the same string, is laughed at.
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The public doesn't want new music; the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music.
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There is something marvelous in music. I might almost say it is, in itself, a marvel. Its position is somewhere between the region of thought and that of phenomena; a glimmering medium between mind and matter, related to both and yet differing from either. Spiritual, and yet requiring rhythm; material, and yet independent of space.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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