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Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve (1670 - 1729), The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act I, sc. 2If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
 The appetite may sicken, and so die.
 That strain again! it had a dying fall:
 O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
 That breathes upon a bank of violets,
 Stealing and giving odour!
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Twelfth Night", Act 1 scene 1If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act I, sc. 1In 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. 1Music, moody food of us that trade in love. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, sc. 5Their 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. 1To 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. 1When griping grief the heart doth wound,and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
 then music, with her silver sound,
 with speedy help doth lend redress.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. Woody Allen (1935 -  ) 
 
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