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"Play the music, not the instrument."	Author Unknown
"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words."	Robert G. Ingersoll
"Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art."	Joseph Addison
"Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead."	Benjamin Disraeli
"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance."	Dave Barry
"Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself."	Henry Ward Beecher
"Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties."	George Bernard Shaw
"The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary…. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise."	George Bernard Shaw
"I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation."	George Bernard Shaw
"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
"Music is the universal language of mankind."	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"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
"Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!"	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"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
"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings."	Ed Gardner
"We're more popular than Jesus Christ now."	John Lennon
"I don't know which will go first-rock 'n' roll or Christianity."	John Lennon
"The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you."	John Lennon
"He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once."	Robert Browning
"Chaos is a friend of mine."	Bob Dylan
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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