Quote by Samuel Butler
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music t

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. – Samuel Butler

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Truth
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When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. – Samuel Butler

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Water
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Music is always a reflection of whats going on in the hearts and minds of the culture. – Tori Amos

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Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. – John Armstrong

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People havent always been there for me, but music always has. – Taylor Swift

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