Music

(42 votes)   There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, ''It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.''

Ezra Pound
1885-1972, American Poet, Critic

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(42 votes)   You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

Doug Floyd

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(41 votes)   Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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(41 votes)   Music is the key to the female heart.

Johann G. Seume
1763-1810, German Theologist

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(41 votes)   Music is the key to the female heart.

Johann G. Seume

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(41 votes)   Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(41 votes)   The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Claude Levi-Strauss
1908-, French Anthropologist

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(40 votes)   Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

John Milton

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(40 votes)   They said, ''You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, ''Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.''

Wallace Stevens
1879-1955, American Poet

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(40 votes)   You are the music while the music lasts.

T. S. Eliot

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(40 votes)   [In reference to Michael Jackson] In my estimation he is the true King of Rock Pop and Soul

Elizabeth Taylor

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(39 votes)   I know only two tunes. One them is ''Yankee Doodle'' and the other isn't.

Ulysses S. Grant
1822-1885, American General, President

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(39 votes)   The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(39 votes)   We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems

Arhtur O'Shanessey

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(38 votes)   A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Leopold Stokowski

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