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A. A. Milne Winnie the Pooh
Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
Aaron Copland
Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
Abraham Maslow
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The city is builtTo music, therefore never built at all,And therefore built forever.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
Ann Petry Solo on the Drums in '47 Magazine of the Year
Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love.
Anne Morrow Lindberg
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
Anonymous
If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud.
Arnold Bennett
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
Artur Schnabel
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
Author Unknown
Music is what feelings sound like.
Author Unknown
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. Sydney Smith
Author Unknown
Play the music, not the instrument.
Author unknown
For heights and depths no words can reach, music is the soul's own speech.
Barbara Sher
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
Benjamin Disraeli
Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
Benny Green
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
Berthold Auerbach
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
 
 
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