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- No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- Music is sound's cognitive apologist.
- Stephen Smoliar
- I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.
- Erin Cleary
- Without music, life would be a mistake.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.
- Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
- How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
- Mrs. Stowe
- It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
- Ricard
- Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.
- Luther
- We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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