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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Bob Marley
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley
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William Shakespeare
"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
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"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy (Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy)
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Aldous Huxley
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
— Aldous Huxley
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Albert Einstein
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
— Albert Einstein
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Nick Hornby
"It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."
— Nick Hornby
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Frank Zappa
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
— Frank Zappa
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Maya Angelou
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
— Maya Angelou
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Albert Schweitzer
"The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats..."
— Albert Schweitzer
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Woody Allen
"I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland."
— Woody Allen
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Leonard Bernstein
"Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
— Leonard Bernstein
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Frank Zappa
"Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny."
— Frank Zappa
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Emma Goldman
"If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution."
— Emma Goldman
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Keith Richards
"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet."
— Keith Richards (Keith Richards: In His Own Words)
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"the past is only the future with the lights on."
— Mark Hoppus ("Blink 182")
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Gerard Way
"If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me."
— Gerard Way
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Oscar Wilde
"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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Frank Zappa
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
— Frank Zappa (Real Frank Zappa Book)
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"Music is my higher power"
— Oliver James
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Bob Dylan
"And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking."
— Bob Dylan
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Frank Zappa
"Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read."
— Frank Zappa (The Real Frank Zappa Book)
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"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. "
— Robert Fripp
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Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy "
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Tom Petty
"Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time."
— Tom Petty
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Henry David Thoreau
"Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it."
— Henry David Thoreau
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John Keats
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on."
— John Keats
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Jewel
"In the end only kindness matters."
— Jewel
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Tom Stoppard
"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation."
— Tom Stoppard
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Morrissey
"If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagerise or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall."
— Morrissey
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Albert Schweitzer
"Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.
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— Albert Schweitzer
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Pat Conroy
"Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide."
— Pat Conroy (Beach Music)
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G.K. Chesterton
"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
— G.K. Chesterton
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Mark Helprin
"If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal."
— Mark Helprin (A Soldier of the Great War)
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"Knowin' nothin' in life but to be legit'
Don't quote me boy, cuz i ain't said shit..."
— Eazy E (Boy's-n-the-hood)
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John Cage
"If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience."
— John Cage
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Karl Lagerfeld
"The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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— Karl Lagerfeld
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Plato
"Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them."
— Plato (Plato's Republic)
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"Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented satisfaction. But the worst temptations are those we give in to without getting anything in return except for the brutal discovery of our weakness."
— Paolo Maurensig
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"We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself."
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Woody Guthrie
"This machine kills fascists."
— Woody Guthrie
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"Sameron adion aso
'I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow'"
— Theocritus
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William Shakespeare
"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."
— William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing)
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"Any good music must be an innovation. "
— Les Baxter
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