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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Igor Stravinsky
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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.
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Ernest Newman
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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
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Benny Green
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
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Sir Thomas Beecham
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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
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Henry Giles
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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
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Colin Wilson
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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W. H. Auden
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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
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Loretta Lynn
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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Aldous Huxley
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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Miguel De Cervantes
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
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Walter Pater
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
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Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.
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James G. Huneker
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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
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Alistair Cooke
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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
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Elbert Hubbard
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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.
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Howard Dietz
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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Harlan Howard
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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
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Samuel Johnson
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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
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Miles Davis
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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
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Noel Coward
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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
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Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Denis Diderot
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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John Keats
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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
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George Bernard Shaw
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I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
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Elvis Presley
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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
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Ringo Starr
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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
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John Lennon
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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.
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Michael Jackson
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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
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Lauren Bacall
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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
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James Brown
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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
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Aretha Franklin
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If music be the food of love; play on.
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William Shakespeare
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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
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Oscar Wilde
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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
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Zimbabwe Proverb
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?
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William Shakespeare
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24 votes
It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
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Samuel Johnson
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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
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Paul Whiteman
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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
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John Philip Sousa
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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.
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Pietro Mascagni
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Mozart is sweet sunshine.
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Antonin Dvorak
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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Samuel Pepys
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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
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James Duffecy
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Music causes us to think eloquently.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
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Victor Hugo
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Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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William Congreve
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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
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Josh Billings
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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
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Henry Miller
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Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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George Santayana
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