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| Aldous Huxley |
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| "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." |
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| Billy Strayhorn |
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| "All music is beautiful." |
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| Les Baxter |
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| "Any good music must be an innovation." |
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| Kin Hubbard |
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| "Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune." |
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| Howard Dietz |
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| "Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism." |
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| Isaac Stern |
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| "Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music." |
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| George Bernard Shaw |
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| "Hell is full of musical amateurs." |
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| Dizzy Gillespie |
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| "I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." |
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| Elvis Presley |
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| "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." |
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| B. B. King |
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| "I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed." |
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| Gustav Mahler |
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| "If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music." |
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| William Shakespeare |
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| "If music be the food of love, play on." |
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| Thomas Carlyle |
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| "If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music." |
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| Sidney Lanier |
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| "If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks." |
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| Richard M. Nixon |
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| "If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together." |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| "In music the passions enjoy themselves." |
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| Benjamin Britten |
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| "It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony." |
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| Bono |
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| "Music can change the world because it can change people." |
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| Jimi Hendrix |
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| "Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music." |
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| Victor Hugo |
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| "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." |
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