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Quotations by Subject: Music (50 quotes)

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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act V, sc. 1
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To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Taming of the Shrew, Act III, sc. 1
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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VIII, Act III, sc. 1
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If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Out of My Later Years, 1936
Music is the medicine off the troubled mind.: Walter Haddon

Results from Cole's Quotables:

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.: Visions of Gregorian Chants
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.: Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.: Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993), The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.: Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993), The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

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