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• 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.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Wine, Piano, Inspire

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• Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

  Kin Hubbard

  Thinking, Tunes, Classic

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• Only sick music makes money today.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Money, Sick, Today

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner”, p.206, Vintage

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• Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

  Art Blakey

  Memorable, Dust, Jazz And Life

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• Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

  Bennie Wallace

  Art, Self, Expression

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• I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

  James Taylor

  Play, People, Drug

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• Roy Orbison was one of the genuinely nicest persons I've ever known. With one of the most beautiful voices in the history of recorded music he could easily have had an opera star's ego, but he was one of the humblest, kindest, sweetest human beings to grace this planet. This in spite of the enormous tragedies in his life. A brave, beautiful blessing of a man.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Beautiful, Stars, Kindness

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• How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!

  Coventry Patmore

  Kissing, Light, Chords

  Coventry Patmore (1863). “The betrothal. The espousals”, p.301

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• All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Truth, Novelists

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• Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

  Edgard Varese

  Dream, Mean, Italian

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-century Music: A Continuing Symposium". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.

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• Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

  Bill Hicks

  Language, Music Is, Knows

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• It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Song, Passion, Heart

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.22

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• Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

  Joseph Addison

  Nonsense, Wells, Capable

  1711 In The Spectator, no.18.

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• We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

  Louis Armstrong

  African American, Jazz, Notes

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• The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

  Thomas Beecham

  Love, Funny, Humorous

  In New York Herald Tribune 9 Mar. 1961

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• My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

  Duke Ellington

  Inspiring, Wise, Play

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• Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

  Bryan Ferry

  Firefighter, Looks, Hendrix

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• You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

  Van Morrison

  Stay Strong, Stay Positive, Singers

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• If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Beautiful, Equality, Play

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• Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

  Johnny Griffin

  People, Feel Good, Jazz

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• Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Giving, Lists, Laundry

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• The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

  Jeffrey Tate

  Expression, Perfect, Behavior

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• Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

  Martin Luther

  Order, Discipline, People

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• Music tells no truths.

  Philip James Bailey

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.174

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