I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953
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The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887Without 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, 1890If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCMusic is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCMusic melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939