Quote by Leo Tolstoy
Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Music is the shorthand of emotion. – Leo Tolstoy

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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat. – Leo Tolstoy

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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders. – Brian Eno

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Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. – John Philip Sousa

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Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesnt. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. – Marilyn vos Savant

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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly. – Carlos Santana

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If the Stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true. – Frances Farmer

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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer. – Henry David Thoreau

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Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. – Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey