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"Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts."	Rebecca West
"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once."	Robert Browning
"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words."	Robert G. Ingersoll
"[Ragtime] was a fanfare for the 20th century."	Russell Lynes
"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
"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
"Music is Love in search of a word."	Sidney Lanier
"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 expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life."	Stephen
"Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold."	Susanne Millen
"You are the music while the music lasts."	T.S. Eliot
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."	Thomas Carlyle
"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
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."	Truman Capote
"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
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent."	Victor Hugo
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."	Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."	Walter J. Lippmann
"Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard."	Warren G. Bennis
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Ward Beecher	Henry Miller
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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
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