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 “The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.” ― William Shakespeare ―

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 “There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle ―

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 “Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” ― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter ―

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"Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable." - Leonard Bernstein -

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"Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie,

To lull the daughters of Necessity, 

And keep unsteady Nature to her law,

And the low world in measured motion draw

After the heavenly tune."

 

- John Milton -

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"[Music is] an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. - Johann Sebastian Bach -

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"A Quality

 Which music sometimes has, being the Art

 Which is most nigh to tears and memory." 

 - Oscar Wilde -

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 "The rotation of the universe and the motion of the planets could neither begin nor continue without music... for everything is ordered... according to the laws of harmony." - Attributed to Plutarch -

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"Nothing exists without music; for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tones of that harmony." - Isidore of Seville -

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 "Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific." - Aaron Copland -

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 "I used to think that music was like lace up on a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life." - George Eastman - 

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"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. - Albert Einstein -

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"Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate, and eternal form." - Plato, as quoted by Sir John Lubbock -

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"[Music] is the 'arithmetic of sound' just as optics is the 'geometry of light.'" - Claude Debussy -

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"Music is enough for a whole lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music." - Sergei Rachmaninoff -

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"[Music] takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are and for what, whence, and whereto. All the great interrogatories like questioning Angels float in on its waves of sound." - Ralph Waldo Emerson -

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 "It is proportion that beautifies everything; this whole Universe consists of it, and Music is measured by it." - Orlando Gibbons -

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"Music is the art of the prophets; it is the only other art which, like theology, can calm the agitations of the soul, and put the devil to flight." - Martin Luther -

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 "He who sings well prays twice." - Attributed to St. Augustine of Hippo -

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"I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better." - Georg Friedrich Handel -