Quote by George Santayana
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without att

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. – George Santayana

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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. – George Santayana

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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana

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As a boy, Id always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasnt what one did for a living. I got over that. – Hugh Jackman

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Music is the universal language: it is the same anywhere you go in the world. – Anonymous

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I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. – Pete Townshend

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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive. – Brian Eno

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