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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

—Anaïs Nin, 1939

He who sings frightens away his ills.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.

—Virgil, 38 BC

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

—Noël Coward, 1930

I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.

—Xie Lingyun, c. 425

Music is our myth of the inner life.

—Susanne K. Langer, 1942

Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.

—Voltaire, 1759

I never practice, I always play.

—Wanda Landowska, 1953

If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

All the daughters of music shall be brought low.

—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BC

If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.

—John Ruskin, 1865

The god of music dwelleth out of doors.

—Edith M. Thomas, 1887

Dance tunes are always right.

—Dylan Thomas, 1936