I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425
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I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCMusic is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCMusic is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893