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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

Other quotes by Joseph Addison

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. – Joseph Addison

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Change
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. – Joseph Addison

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Nature
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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. – Joseph Addison

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Laughter
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Music inflames temperament. – Jim Morrison

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Music

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie. – George Lucas

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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. Im not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. – Pete Townshend

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Music

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad. – Beth Ditto

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Glasgows not a media center. When youre there, when youre hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way. – Alex Kapranos

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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