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"Play the music, not the instrument."
Author Unknown
"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.
"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
"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
"The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you."
John Lennon
"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
"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music."
Agnes de Mile
"There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music."
Jim Davis
"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."
George Eliot
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."
George Gordon Byron
"Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music."
Angela Monèt
"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."
Truman Capote
"We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends."
Alfred A. Montapert
"We're more popular than Jesus Christ now."
John Lennon
"Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead."
Benjamin Disraeli
"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
"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have."
Edgar Watson Howe
"Without music life would be a mistake."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"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
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