Quote by Joseph Addison
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. – Joseph Addison

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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. – Joseph Addison

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Attitude
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. – Joseph Addison

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Admiration
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. – Joseph Addison

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Age
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I want my music to do the explaining. – Demi Lovato

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Its been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what Ive experienced. – Adam Lambert

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Music

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture. – E. O. Wilson

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Music

You can never stop discovering music. – Rashida Jones

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Music

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