Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCMusic is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865Music is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887