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"I don't know which will go first-rock 'n' roll or Christianity." John Lennon 3.7143 average rating Rate this Quote
"The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you." John Lennon 3.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense." Joseph Addison 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art." Joseph Addison 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music." Julius Henry Marx 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever." June Masters Bacher 4.3784 average rating Rate this Quote
"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife." Kahlil Gibran 4.8750 average rating Rate this Quote
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable." Leonard Bernstein 4.7273 average rating Rate this Quote
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." Ludwig van Beethoven 4.5833 average rating Rate this Quote
"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy." Ludwig van Beethoven 4.7813 average rating Rate this Quote
"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend." Ludwig van Beethoven 4.8667 average rating Rate this Quote
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." Martin Luther King, Jr. 4.9722 average rating Rate this Quote
"Number is the Word but is not utterance; it is wave and light, though no one sees it; it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number." Maurice Druon 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!" Oliver Wendell Holmes 4.8182 average rating Rate this Quote
"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 4.5455 average rating Rate this Quote
"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory." Oscar Wilde 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays." Oscar Wilde 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 3.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune." Phillips Brooks 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not." Ralph Waldo Emerson 3.1429 average rating Rate this Quote
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