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Quotes about 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. (Wopat Tom)
Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. (Wopat Tom)
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. (Wopat Tom)
Canned music is like audible wallpaper. (Wopat Tom)
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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. (Wopat Tom)
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. (Wopat Tom)
Good music is very close to primitive language. (Wopat Tom)
The high note is not the only thing. (Wopat Tom)
Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. (Wopat Tom)
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. (Wopat Tom)
Music is only love looking for words. (Wopat Tom)
Mozart is sweet sunshine. (Wopat Tom)
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. (Wopat Tom)
You are the music while the music lasts. (Wopat Tom)
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. (Wopat Tom)
Music causes us to think eloquently. (Wopat Tom)
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. (Wopat Tom)
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings. (Wopat Tom)
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me. (Wopat Tom)
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today. (Wopat Tom)
Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. (Wopat Tom)
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. (Wopat Tom)
Your talking to someone who really understands rock music. (Wopat Tom)
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. (Wopat Tom)
Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power. (Wopat Tom)
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