Quote by George Santayana
Music is essentially useless, as is life. - George Santayana

Music is essentially useless, as is life. – George Santayana

Other quotes by George Santayana

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. – George Santayana

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Future
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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. – George Santayana

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Money
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Music fathoms the sky. – Charles Baudelaire

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Music

I dont like to be labeled, to be anything. Ive made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but its counter-productive. – Neil Young

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Music

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. – Billy Corgan

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Music

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words. – Felix Mendelssohn

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Music

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No human thing is of serious importance. – Plato

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I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for Tis only to them that they are blessings. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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I think theres a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you dont have to think about it. – Clyde Tombaugh

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Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you dont know their names, they dont care about you, you dont care about them. – Pam Grier

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