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Quote by Ezra Pound
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance...

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Ezra Pound

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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. – Ezra Pound

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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. – Ezra Pound

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Music makes us want to live. You dont know how many times people have told me that theyd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. Thats the power music has. – Mary J. Blige

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It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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