"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on Music
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"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Work
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"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."

Morrison, Van on Music
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"Architecture is petrified music."

Schelling, Felix E. on Architecture
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"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on Music
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"Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?"

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on Arts and Artists
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"Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is bad."

Zappa, Frank on Stardom
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