If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890
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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, 1759I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425