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Quotes about music
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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. (Cusack John)
Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy. (Cusack John)
Music is the melody whose text is the world. (Cusack John)
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. (Cusack John)
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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. (Cusack John)
The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway. (Cusack John)
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. (Cusack John)
Music is the universal language of mankind. (Cusack John)
I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. (Cusack John)
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. (Cusack John)
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. (Cusack John)
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. (Cusack John)
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. (Cusack John)
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. (Cusack John)
Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies. (Cusack John)
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. (Cusack John)
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. (Cusack John)
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. (Cusack John)
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. (Cusack John)
Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. (Cusack John)
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. (Cusack John)
I was a veteran before I was a teenager. (Cusack John)
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. (Cusack John)
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. (Cusack John)
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. (Cusack John)
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