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By music minds an equal temper know,Nor swell too high, nor sink too low.* * * * *Warriors she fires with animated sounds;Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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Can any mortal mixture of earth's mouldBreathe such divine enchanting ravishment?
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Charles Lamb, A Chapter on Ears.
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Christian Wolff, quoted in Kostelanetz, Richard (editor) and Joseph Darby (editor). Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music. ISBN 0028645812.
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Chuck Berry, Johnny B. Goode, Chuck Berry Is on Top (1958)
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Composers have different ways of getting their message out. So, when my teacher told me not to be a snob, this is what he did that put me right in my place. I mean, man, I was such a jazz snob, and he said to me, when I cracked on him about "Sugar, Sugar", he said, "Let me tell you something little brother, any song that makes it into the Top 40 is a great composition." And I said, "Why would you call it a great composition?", Ted. And he said, "Because it speaks to the souls of a million strangers." I was like, "Whoo!" I was like "Pap, smack little kid, now go sit down, and write 'Do-do-do-do' -- punk. Huh huh. Go sit down and write that." I did...
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Coventry Patmore, By the Sea.
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Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, Section 63 (1)(b) (United Kingdom).
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Dane Harwood (1976:522). "Universals in Music: A Perspective from Cognitive Psychology", Ethnomusicology 20, no. 3:521-33.
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Daniel Barenboim, statement at the Knesset upon receiving the Wolf Prize, May 9, 2004, transcript online (16 May 2004) at The Electronic Intifada.
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Daniel Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
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Daniel Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
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Daniel Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
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David Oistrakh, nytimes.com
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Despite the fact that as an art, music cannot compromise its principles, and politics, on the other hand, is the art of compromise, when politics transcends the limits of the present existence and ascents to the higher sphere of the possible, it can be joined there by music. Music is the art of the imaginary par excellence, an art free of all limits imposed by words, an art that touches the depth of human existence, and art of sounds that crosses all borders. As such, music can take the feelings and imagination of Israelis and Palestinians to new unimaginable spheres.