Music

(34 votes)   Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Bill Nye

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(33 votes)   Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(33 votes)   Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

John Philip Sousa

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(33 votes)   Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Theodore Mungers

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(33 votes)   Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Geoffrey Latham

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(33 votes)   Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Henry Ward Beecher

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(33 votes)   One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(33 votes)   When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Steve Halpem

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(32 votes)   Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Sir John Herschel
1792-1871, British Scientist

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(32 votes)   Music should never be harmless.

Robbie Robertson

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(32 votes)   Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(32 votes)   Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.

Edward Gardner
American Businessman, Founder of Soft Sheen Products

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(32 votes)   Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Richard Neville

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(32 votes)   Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music

Angela Monet

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(31 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, Jr

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