Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCExtraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425Music is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCIf 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, 1887Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936