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"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule."

- Samuel Butler

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#2

"Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent."

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#3

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

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#4

"Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass."

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#5

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see...

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"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason....

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#7

"Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant."

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#8

"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."

- Marcus Aurelius

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#9

"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music, and of avi...

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#10

"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems ...

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#11

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."

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#12

"One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, e...

- Peter Gabriel

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#13

"All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural ...

- John Coltrane

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#14

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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#15

"Achievement results from work realizing ambition."

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#16

"Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young."

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#17

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

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#18

"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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#19

"To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings – it’s all a miracle. I have ado...

- Arthur Rubinstein

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#20

"My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will ...

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#21

"There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music."

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#22

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."

- Laurie Anderson

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#23

"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind c...

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#24

"I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to comp...

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#25

"The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here."

- Bob Livingston

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