"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on love
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"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."

Melville, Herman on hope
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"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on music
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"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Auerbach, Berthold on music
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"In memory everything seems to happen to music."

Williams, Tennessee on memory
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"Love is a friendship set to music."

Cossman, E. Joseph on love
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"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."

Sagan, Francoise on jazz   

"I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music."

Holiday, Billie on song and singing
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"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

Parker, Charlie on music
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"It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music."

Hoffer, Eric on music   

"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes."

Cosby, Bill on music
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"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."

Joel, Billy on music
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"The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead."

Stravinsky, Igor on music
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"Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind."

Lingerman, Hal A. on music
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"The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on music
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"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."

Cocteau, Jean on music
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"If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music."

Carlyle, Thomas on music
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"One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music."

Carlyle, Thomas on music
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"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."

Cervantes, Miguel De on music   

"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."

Sitwell, Dame Edith on silence
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"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on music
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"If music be the food of love; play on."

Shakespeare, William on music
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"Music is the key to the female heart."

Seume, Johann G. on music
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"Music should never be harmless."

Robertson, Robbie on music   

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on music
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"Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics."

Mascagni, Pietro on music   

"Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor."

Luther, Martin on music
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"Music is the vernacular of the human soul."

Latham, Geoffrey on music   

"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness."

Cioran, E. M. on music   

"Without music, life is a journey through a desert."

Conroy, Pat on music
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"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."

Duffecy, James on music
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"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."

Durrell, Lawrence on music
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"Music is only love looking for words."

Durrell, Lawrence on music
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"Music causes us to think eloquently."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on music
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"The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."

Morley, Christopher on poetry and poets
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"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

Kafka, Franz on poetry and poets   

"If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money."

Graves, Robert on poetry and poets   

"I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each."

Ginsberg, Allen on poetry and poets   

"We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."

Fowles, John on poetry and poets
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"Only poetry inspires poetry."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on poetry and poets
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