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A good ear for music, and a taste for music are two very different things which are often confounded; and so is comprehending and enjoying every object of sense and sentiment.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

All musical people seem to be happy; it is to them the engrossing pursuit; almost the only innocent and unpunished passion.

All of heaven we have below.

An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.

Beethoven can write music, thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.

Both music and painting add a spirit to devotion, and elevate the ardor.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.

He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.


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