Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Music Quotes, Men Quotes

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

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Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

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Only sick music makes money today.

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A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

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The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

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The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.

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Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

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The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

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I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

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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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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

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No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.

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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

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Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

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I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.

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You are the music while the music lasts.

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The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.

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