Music

(26 votes)   Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often

Samuel Butler

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(26 votes)   Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(26 votes)   Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

Elvis Costello

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(25 votes)   It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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

John Phillip Sousa

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(24 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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(24 votes)   Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General, Emperor

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(24 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

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(24 votes)   Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I've never heard.

Bob Marley
1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist

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(24 votes)   The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(24 votes)   The stone that the builder refused to lay should always be the head corners stone. You're a builder baby; here I am a stone.

Bob Marley
1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist

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(24 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.

Steven Halpern

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(23 votes)   Music is what feelings sound like.

Unknown

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(23 votes)   Music should never be harmless.

Robbie Robertson

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(23 votes)   The power of philosophy floats through my head, light like a feather, heavy as lead.

Bob Marley
1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist

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