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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it immensely. All art is useless.
- Oscar Wilde
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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
- William Shakespeare
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Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
- Wynetka Ann Reynolds
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Drama is like a dream, it is not real, but it is really felt.
- Abhinavagupta
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Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
- Margot Fonteyn
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I do not want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
- Carrie Fisher
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All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.
- Henry Mitchell
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Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
- Carl Perkins
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O great creator of being, grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
- Jim Morrison
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, is music.
- Aldous Huxley
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
- Victor Hugo
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The history of a people is found in its songs.
- George Jellinek
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
- B.B. King
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A painter paints pictures on canvas, but musicians paint their pictures on silence.
- Leopold Stokowski
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
- Oscar Wilde
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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
- Frank Zappa
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
- Plutarch
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There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
- Pythagoras
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To sing well and to dance well is to be well-educated.
- Plato
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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
- George Santayana
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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
- Carlos Santana
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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
- Robert Schumann
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Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.
- Roger Sessions
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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
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