“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”
— Leonard Bernstein
Author: Leonard Bernstein
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Those who decide to use leisure as
“Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation – what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.”
— William Lyon Phelps
Author: William Lyon Phelps
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Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual
“Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
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No good opera plot can be sensible,
“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
— W. H. Auden
Author: W. H. Auden
Category: music
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I plan to stay in music. I
“I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.”
— Joan Jett
Author: Joan Jett
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I love sad songs. They say so
“I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.”
— Beth Ditto
Author: Beth Ditto
Category: music
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime,
“My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Category: music
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I have no love for myself as
“I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.”
— Steven Patrick Morrissey
Author: Steven Patrick Morrissey
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Music breaks my heart constantly.
“Music breaks my heart constantly.”
— Rashida Jones
Author: Rashida Jones
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When you work you are a flute
“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?”
— Khalil Gibran
Author: Khalil Gibran
Category: music
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I love electronic music, and I love
“I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.”
— Fred Durst
Author: Fred Durst
Category: music
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