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- A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
- George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
- Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005), "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
- Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- I was simply furnishing a home. I love music ... and I don't think a $130,000 indoor-outdoor stereo system is extravagant.
- Leona Helmsley, 1990, refuting charges that her lifestyle was excessive
- Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
- E.M. Cioran
- Making music should not be left to the professionals.
- Michelle Shocked
- Music is essentially useless, as life is.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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