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

—Voltaire, 1759

Music is our myth of the inner life.

—Susanne K. Langer, 1942

Dance tunes are always right.

—Dylan Thomas, 1936

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

—Henry Miller, 1945

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

—Anaïs Nin, 1939

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

—Noël Coward, 1930

I never practice, I always play.

—Wanda Landowska, 1953

He who sings frightens away his ills.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

The god of music dwelleth out of doors.

—Edith M. Thomas, 1887

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

—Xie Lingyun, c. 425

Without music life would be a mistake.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889

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

—Virgil, 38 BC

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

—John Ruskin, 1865