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"Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world."	Giuseppe Mazzini
"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."	Kahlil Gibran
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."	Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music is the universal language of mankind."	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Music is the vernacular of the human soul."	Geoffrey Latham
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."	Thomas Carlyle
"Music is what feelings sound like."	Author Unknown
"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays."	Oscar Wilde
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."	Berthold Auerbach
"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
"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
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."	Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance."	Dave Barry
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."	Joseph Addison
"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
"Of all the earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart."	Henry Ward Beecher
"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."	Henry Ward Beecher
"Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold."	Susanne Millen
"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings."	Ed Gardner
"Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition."	George Bernard Shaw
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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