Music

(269 votes)   Where words fail, music speaks

Hans Christian Anderson

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(261 votes)   I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hermann Hesse
1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet

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(232 votes)   Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Jacques Attali

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(224 votes)   Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Jacques Attali
1943-, Algerian-born French Economist, Writer

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(210 votes)   A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(202 votes)   Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Jean Paul Richter

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(184 votes)   The first thing you must know about me is that I always stand what I stand for. Good? The second thing you must know about yourself listening to me is that words are tricky. So when you know what me a stand for, when me explain a thing to you, you must ne.

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

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(178 votes)   It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

Eric Anderson

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(177 votes)   It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

Eric Anderson

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(172 votes)   I'd trade all my tommorows for a single yesterday.

Janis Joplin
American Singer 1943-1970

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(167 votes)   I feel, you know, I hurt, please help.' I'm saying words, man, and if I look at an audience and they ain't understanding me, it's just like getting kicked in the teeth.

Janis Joplin
American Singer 1943-1970

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(166 votes)   Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

Janis Joplin
American Singer 1943-1970

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(165 votes)   On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone!

Janis Joplin
American Singer 1943-1970

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(162 votes)   . . . I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Josephine Baker

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(157 votes)   I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

John Lennon
1940-1980, British Rock Musician

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