Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759
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Music is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936Music 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, 1930I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCIf you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865