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| I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. (Sir Edward Appleton) |
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| A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. (Sir Thomas Beecham) |
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| The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' (Aaron Copland) |
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| Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. (Ed Gardner) |
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| I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. (Elvis Presley) |
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| Only sick music makes money today. (Friedrich Nietzsche Der Fall Wagner Section 5) |
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| Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. (G. K. Chesterton) |
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| Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. (Samuel Johnson) |
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| Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. (Groucho Marx) |
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| Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. (Sir Thomas Beecham) |
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| An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. (Dan Rather) |
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| Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. (Kin Hubbard) |
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| Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. (Oscar Wilde) |
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| I hate music, especially when it's played. (Jimmy Durante) |
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| If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it. (Pierre Beaumarchais) |
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| No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. (W. H. Auden) |
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Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. (William Congreve The Mourning Bride Act 1 Scene 1) |
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| Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. (Robert Fripp) |
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| My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. (Martin Luther) |
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| Dance is the hidden language of the soul. (Martha Graham) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. (Homer The Odyssey) |
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