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

—Virgil, 38 BC

All the daughters of music shall be brought low.

—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BC

All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.

—Antonín Dvořák, 1893

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.

—Henry Miller, 1945

Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.

—George Eliot, 1868

The god of music dwelleth out of doors.

—Edith M. Thomas, 1887

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

—Xie Lingyun, c. 425

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

—Voltaire, 1759

He who sings frightens away his ills.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

Music is our myth of the inner life.

—Susanne K. Langer, 1942

Without music life would be a mistake.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889

Dance tunes are always right.

—Dylan Thomas, 1936

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

—Anaïs Nin, 1939