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

—Xie Lingyun, c. 425

I never practice, I always play.

—Wanda Landowska, 1953

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

—Noël Coward, 1930

He who sings frightens away his ills.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

Dance tunes are always right.

—Dylan Thomas, 1936

The god of music dwelleth out of doors.

—Edith M. Thomas, 1887

All the daughters of music shall be brought low.

—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BC

Music is our myth of the inner life.

—Susanne K. Langer, 1942

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

—George Eliot, 1868

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

—Voltaire, 1759

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

—Virgil, 38 BC

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

—Henry Miller, 1945

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

—Antonín Dvořák, 1893