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

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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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Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

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Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

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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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All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

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The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

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

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Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

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The man that hath no music in himself

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I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

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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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He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.

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Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

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

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