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The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. – Frank Sinatra

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. – Walter Lippmann

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows. – Napoleon Bonaparte

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. – H. L. Mencken

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. – Thomas Carlyle

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. – Henry Ward Beecher

Music for me, it demands full concentration. – Paulo Coelho

Music fills the infinite between two souls. – Rabindranath Tagore

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. – Pope John Paul II

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. – William Blake

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. – William Wordsworth

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Music is always a commentary on society. – Frank Zappa

Music is the melody whose text is the world. – Arthur Schopenhauer

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. – Samuel Butler

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. – Ludwig van Beethoven

I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. – William Wordsworth