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"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Music is Love in search of a word."	Sidney Lanier
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."	Albert Einstein
"When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress."	William Shakespeare
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."	Ludwig van Beethoven
"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
"Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music."	Angela Monèt
"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.
"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
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."	Truman Capote
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"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
"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever."	June Masters Bacher
"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music."	Agnes de Mile
"I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball."	Gerald Early
"I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music."	Aretha Franklin
"Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life."	Stephen
"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years."	William F. Buckley
"Music is the vernacular of the human soul."	Geoffrey Latham
"Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art."	Joseph Addison
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Abraham Maslow	Agnes de Mile	Albert Einstein
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