Music is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942
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Music 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, 1939Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCWithout music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCMusic sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865