All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BC
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I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCHe who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889