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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

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Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

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Music is the melody whose text is the world.

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O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.

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Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

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Music and Wine are one.

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PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

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Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

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How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

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You are the music while the music lasts.

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Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

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The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.

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When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.

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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

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Music is the brandy of the damned.

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The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.

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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.

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There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

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