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, 1953Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCThe tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BC