I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953
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Music is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCMusic is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865