Alan Watts Quotes, Life Quotes, Music Quotes

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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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

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In music the passions enjoy themselves.

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Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.

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I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

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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.

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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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Music is the brandy of the damned.

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All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?

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All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.

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You are the music while the music lasts.

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

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My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

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There is music in all things, if men had ears.

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The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

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I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

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Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.

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Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

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