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"Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!"	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."	Berthold Auerbach
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."	Thomas Carlyle
"Music is what feelings sound like."	Author Unknown
"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
"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy."	Ludwig van Beethoven
"I call architecture frozen music."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard."	Warren G. Bennis
"My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often--in fact, mostly--at the expense of everything else in my life."	Stan Getz
"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."	Oscar Wilde
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."	Leonard Bernstein
"Music is the universal language of mankind."	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"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
"You are the music while the music lasts."	T.S. Eliot
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent."	Victor Hugo
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."	Joseph Addison
"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."	George Eliot
"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
"Without music life would be a mistake."	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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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