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Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.

—George Eliot, 1868

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

—Anaïs Nin, 1939

Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.

—Voltaire, 1759

Dance tunes are always right.

—Dylan Thomas, 1936

Without music life would be a mistake.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889

I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.

—Xie Lingyun, c. 425

I never practice, I always play.

—Wanda Landowska, 1953

The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.

—Virgil, 38 BC

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.

—Henry Miller, 1945

He who sings frightens away his ills.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.

—John Ruskin, 1865

Music is our myth of the inner life.

—Susanne K. Langer, 1942

The god of music dwelleth out of doors.

—Edith M. Thomas, 1887