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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."	Joseph Addison
"Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs."	Tori Amos
"It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams."	Eric Anderson
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."	Berthold Auerbach
"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever."	June Masters Bacher
"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."	Henry Ward Beecher
"Of all the earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart."	Henry Ward Beecher
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."	Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy."	Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."	Ludwig van Beethoven
"Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard."	Warren G. Bennis
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."	Leonard Bernstein
"The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung."	Phillips Brooks
"Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune."	Phillips Brooks
"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."	Samuel Butler
"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often."	Samuel Butler
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."	George Gordon Byron
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."	Truman Capote
"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."	Truman Capote
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."	Thomas Carlyle
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Aldous Leonard Huxley	Alfred A. Montapert	Angela Monèt
Aretha Franklin	Author Unknown	Benjamin Disraeli
Berthold Auerbach	Bob Dylan	Bruce Jenner
Dave Barry	Dave Navarro	Ed Gardner
Edgar Watson Howe	Eric Anderson	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Geoffrey Latham	George Bernard Shaw	George Eliot
George Gordon Byron	Gerald Early	Giuseppe Mazzini
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Ward Beecher	Henry Miller
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jim Davis	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Lennon	Joseph Addison	Julius Henry Marx
June Masters Bacher	Kahlil Gibran	Leonard Bernstein
Ludwig van Beethoven	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Maurice Druon
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	Oscar Wilde
Phillips Brooks	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Rebecca West
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert Browning	Robert G. Ingersoll
Russell Lynes	Samuel Butler	Sidney Lanier
Stan Getz	Stephen	Susanne Millen
Thomas Carlyle	Tori Amos	Truman Capote
T.S. Eliot	Victor Hugo	Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Walter J. Lippmann	Warren G. Bennis	William F. Buckley
William Shakespeare	Woody Allen