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| The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the MUSIC of our own opinions. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive MUSIC and primitive medicine. | Stephen B. Leacock | 1869-1944, Canadian Humorist, Economist |
| I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of MUSIC. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that. | Paul Mccartney | 1942-, British Pop Star, Composer, Songwriter, Member of ''Beatles'' |
| A MUSICian must make MUSIC, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. | Abraham H. Maslow | 1908-1970, American Psychologist |
| How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted MUSICal instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. | Alan W. Watts | 1915-1973, British-born American Philosopher, Author |
| Truly fertile MUSIC, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a MUSIC conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is MUSIC. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Canned MUSIC is like audible wallpaper. | Alistair Cooke | 1908-, British Broadcaster, Journalist |
| Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of colour strikes the eyelids. A foam of MUSIC falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm. | Anais Nin | 1914-1977, French-born American Novelist, Dancer |
| Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its MUSIC only. | Andre Mairaux | 1901-1976, French Statesman, Novelist |
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| Mozart is sweet sunshine. | Antonin Dvorak | |
| I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome MUSIC. | Aretha Franklin | 1942-, American Musician, Singer, Composer, Pianist |
| MUSIC is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities. | Arthur Winter | |
| The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides. | Artur Schnabel | 1882-1951, German-born American Pianist |
| Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make MUSIC. You know what to do. | Barbara Sher | American Author of ''I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was'' |
| 'Tis the common disease of all your MUSICians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end. | Ben Jonson | 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet |
| It is cruel, you know, that MUSIC should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony. | Benjamin Britten | 1913-1976, British Composer |
| A jazz MUSICian is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. | Benny Green | |
| There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, MUSIC and women. | Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle | 1657-1757, Scientist, Man of Letter |
| Nothing separates the generations more than MUSIC. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own MUSIC that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. | Bill Cosby | 1937-, American Actor, Comedian, Producer |
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| Wagner's MUSIC is better than it sounds. | Bill Nye | |
| I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't MUSIC, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodelling or something, not MUSIC. | Billie Holiday | 1915-1959, American Jazz Singer |
| Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. | Billy Gibbons | |
| A typical day in the life of a heavy metal MUSICian consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting. | Billy Joel | 1949-, American Musician, Piano Man, Singer, Songwriter |
| I think MUSIC in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves MUSIC. | Billy Joel | 1949-, American Musician, Piano Man, Singer, Songwriter |
| I've come to realize that life is not a MUSICal comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. | Billy Joel | 1949-, American Musician, Piano Man, Singer, Songwriter |
| This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to MUSIC anyway. | Bob Dylan | 1941-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
| People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the MUSIC and the ideas. | Bob Dylan | 1941-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
| I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real MUSICians and real fans stay together for a long, long time. | Bonnie Raitt | 1949-, American Singer, Guitarist, Musician, Songwriter |
| Rock MUSIC should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers. | Bruce Dickinson | |
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| I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a MUSICian, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won t. | Bruce Jenner | 1949-, American Olympian, Actor, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Sports Commentator |
| People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best MUSIC, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. | Bruce Springsteen | 1949-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
| Without Elvis, none of us could have made it. | Buddy Holly | |
| MUSIC is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to MUSIC. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. | Charlie Parker | 1920-1955, American Jazz Musician |
| MUSIC is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then MUSIC. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. | Colin Wilson | 1931-, British Novelist and Writer on Philosophy, Sociology, and the Occult |
| MUSIC is the shorthand of emotion. | Count Leo Tolstoy | 1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher |
| My personal hobbies are reading, listening to MUSIC, and silence. | Dame Edith Sitwell | 1887-1964, British Poet |
| What's the difference between the MUSIC of my generation and today s. Our songs were about Love and Romance, today's MUSIC is chiefly about sex; which I might add gets a little boring. | David A. Vigilanti | |
| As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the MUSIC is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive -- and it still informs other kinds of MUSIC. | David Byrne | |
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| Good MUSIC is very close to primitive language. | Denis Diderot | 1713-1784, French Philosopher |
| When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in MUSIC. | Denis Diderot | 1713-1784, French Philosopher |
| Love is a friendship set to MUSIC. | E. Joseph Cossman | American Businessman, Author, Lecturer |
| MUSIC is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. | E. M. Cioran | 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher |
| Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings. | Edward Gardner | American Businessman, Founder of Soft Sheen Products |
| Classical MUSIC is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. | Elbert Hubbard | 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher |
| Experience, like a pale MUSICian, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 1806-1861, British Poet |
| I want to do a MUSICal movie. Like Evita, but with good MUSIC. | Elton John | 1947-, British Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
| Writing about MUSIC is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do. | Elvis Costello | 1955-, British-born American Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
| I don't know anything about MUSIC. In my line you don't have to. | Elvis Presley | 1935-1977, American Singer, Actor |
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