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“Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.”
“Had I learned to fiddle I should have done nothing else.”
“I am an arrogant and impatient listener but in the case of a few composers a very few when I hear a work I do not like I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.”
“Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.”
“Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.”
“If a literary man puts together two words about music one of them will be wrong.”
“Music is given to us specifically to make order of things to move from an anarchic individualistic state to a regulated perfectly concious one which alone insures vitality and durability.”
“Music should strike fire from the heart of man and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
“Soprano basso even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.”
“The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.”
“The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled.”
“Light quirks of music broken and uneven Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.”
“The man that hath no music in himself Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds Is fit for treasons stratagems and spoils.”
“I’m a man of music as much as I am a man of words and prose. One could even possibly say that they, music and prose, are connected to a lengthy and mutually beneficial extent and that they have bee...”
“Country's hip it's cool music.”
“I design music I don't produce it.”
