All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BC
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Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953Music is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCDance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889