“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
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“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”
“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
“If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.”
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.”
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
“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 suffice.”
“The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?”
“It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.”
“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.”
“Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.”
“The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.”
“Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.”
“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.”
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”
“A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!”
“I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.”
“Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.”
“It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.”
“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.”