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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
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Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
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When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
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When I am asked, "What do you think of our audience?" I answer, "I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing."
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Arthur Schnabel (1882 - 1951), My Life and Music (1961)
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) act 3
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
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Bob Marley (1945 - 1981)
Dateline: Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum.
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Jeffrey Vlaming, Northern Exposure, Heroes, 1992
Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter.
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Marilyn Manson (1969 - )
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