George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Music Quotes, Important Quotes

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

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The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

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Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

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And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.

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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

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

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

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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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Without music, life would be a mistake.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Life Quotes , Music Quotes

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Music Quotes , Thinking 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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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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Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

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Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

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Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

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Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

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PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Funny Quotes , Music Quotes

This World is not Conclusion. A Sequel stands beyond- Invisible, as Music- But positive, as Sound.

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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

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