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

Music is the shorthand of emotion. – Leo Tolstoy

Other quotes by Leo Tolstoy

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. – Leo Tolstoy

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Happiness
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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people cant eat it. – Leo Tolstoy

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Art
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. – Leo Tolstoy

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Death
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Other Quotes from
Music
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I like having my hair and face done, but Im not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy. – Adele

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Music

You cant give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside – so be it. But at least you know youve tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it. – Robert Plant

Category:
Music

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time. – Carlos Santana

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Music

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed – and so is their music. – Chris Barber

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Music

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All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. – Charles Sanders Peirce

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The education of a man is never completed until he dies. – Robert E. Lee

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Education

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year. – Jane Fonda

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Age

Nature seems at each mans birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Nature