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

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. – Samuel Butler

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Money
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. – Samuel Butler

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God
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I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big. – Maynard James Keenan

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Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. – Marcel Marceau

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Im writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music Ive already written. – Kesha

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you dont take it too seriously. – Henry Miller

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More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. – Simone Weil

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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poets bombast! – Jean De La Bruyere

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The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true. – Hedy Lamarr

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