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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Music makes things in our minds, but afterward most of them fade away. What remains? ...perhaps what we learn is not the music itself but a way of hearing it.
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Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high,And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
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Music resembles poetry: in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teachAnd which a master-hand alone can reach.
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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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Music sweeps by me as a messengerCarrying a message that is not for me.
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Music tells no truths.
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Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.
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Music that gentlier on the spirit liesThan tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes.
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Music was a thing of the soul—a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea—a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.
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Music's force can tame the furious beast.
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Music, or any art form... has to strike the right balance between simplicity and complexity.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul; on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.
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Musical virtuosity is not the ability to play something fast, but to learn it slowly.