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• It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.

  Victor de Laprade

  Piano, Infinite, Invisible

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

  Howard Dietz

  Inspirational, Thinking, Too Much

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• Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

  Duke Ellington

  Thinking, Should Have, Littles

  Mark Tucker, Duke Ellington (1995). “The Duke Ellington Reader”, p.334, Oxford Paperbacks

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• In music the passions enjoy themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Jazz, Enjoy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.274, Modern Library

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• Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Song, Errors, Singing

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.

  Louis Armstrong

  Blow, Soul, Spirit

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  There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

  Duke Ellington

  Two, Jazz, Kind

  Mark Tucker, Duke Ellington (1995). “The Duke Ellington Reader”, p.326, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

  William Congreve

  Inspirational, Rocks, Hell Hath No Fury

  1697 Almeria to Leonora. The Mourning Bride, act 1, sc.1.

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• People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

  Witold Lutosławski

  Airports, People, Jazz

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• I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Careers, Sound, Jazz

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• Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

  George Eliot

  Effort, Goes On, Musical Life

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1203, Wordsworth Editions

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• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Law Of Attraction

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• Some people have lives; some people have music.

  John Green

  Life, Real, Passion

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.28, Penguin

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• The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

  Andres Segovia

  Inspirational, Play, Guitar

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• Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

  Paul Whiteman

  Years, America, History

  1926 Jazz.

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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

  Piano, Composer, Composing

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• Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Spiritual, Strong, Expression

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• He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• Hell is full of musical amateurs.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Clever, Hell, Musical

  Man and Superman act 3 (1903)

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• If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

  John Cage

  Cutting, Ego, Listening

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• Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

  Isaac Stern

  Funny, Humorous, World

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• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  Harlan Howard

  Country, Inspiration, Three

  "Country Scribe Harlan Howard Dies" by Andrew Dansby, www.rollingstone.com. March 5, 2002.

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• Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Piano, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Fats, Bunch

  Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

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• Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Memories, Voice, Piano

  'To - : One word is too often profaned'

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