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Study Bach. There you will find everything.
- Johannes Brahms
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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
- Leonard Bernstein
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A child sings before it speaks, dances almost before it walks, music is with us from the beginning.
- Pamela Brown
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Composing is like driving down a foggy road...
- Benjamin Britten
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If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
- José Bergamín
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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
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Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
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Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly, two.
- Fredric Chopin
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
- Pat Conroy
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Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
- Confucius
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Music to me is like breathing - I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.
- Ray Charles
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What we play is life.
- Louis Armstrong
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A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.
- Bela Bartok
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I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
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There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
- M. Aumonier
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People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
- Paul Hindemith
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I know only two tunes; one of them is "Yankee Doodle", and the other isn't.
- Ulysess S. Grant
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Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
- E.Y. Harbug
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All the sounds of the earth are like music.
- Oscar Hammerstein
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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
- Benny Green
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Do not fear mistakes, there are none.
- Miles Davis
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Playing "bop" is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
- Duke Ellington
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Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.
- Duke Ellington
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The high note is not the only thing.
- Placido Domingo
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
- Og Mandino
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
- Rudyard Kipling
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau
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You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
- Simonides
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All mankind's inner feelings eventually manifest themselves as an outer reality.
- Stuart Wilde
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Émile Zola
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
- Dame Rebecca West
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
- Simone Weil
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
- Oscar Wilde
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Patience is an integral part of talent.
- Vicki Baum
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
- Lillian Hellman
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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
- Charles Dickens
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If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
- Albert Einstein
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
- Thomas Edison
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.
- Anna Pavlova
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Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient that fuels daring.
- Grace Lichtenstein
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Dancing is silent poetry.
- Simonides
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Strong and convincing art has never risen from theories.
- Mary Wigman
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When I dance, I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life.
- Hans Bos
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Dance can give the inarticulate a voice.
- Pamela Brown
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Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
- Samuel Beckett
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There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
- Viki Baum
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Ladanse,c'est le mouvement,et le mouvement, c'est la vie. Dance is movement, and movement is life.
- Ludmilla Chiriaeff
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How inimitably graceful children are in general -- before they learn to dance.
- S.T. Coleridge
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On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined.
- Lord Byron
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Dance every performance as if it were your last.
- Erik Bruhn
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Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, backwards and on high heels.
- Anonymous
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Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
- Anonymous
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Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced.
- Paige Arden
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In life as in the dance: Grace glides on blistered feet.
- Alice Abrams
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Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.
- Maya Angelou
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First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.
- George Balanchine
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I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.
- George Balanchine
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Dance is music made visible.
- George Balanchine
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Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
- Charles Baudelaire
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Dance till the stars come down from the rafters. Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.
- W.H. Auden
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I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
- Fred Astaire
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Dancing is like dreaming with your feet.
- Constanze
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
- Martha Graham
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
- Martha Graham
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille
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The only way to do it is to do it.
- Merce Cunningham
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Good choreography fuses eye, ear, and mind.
- Arlene Croce
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Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.
- Ibrahim Farrah
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Move your neck according to the music.
- Ethiopian Proverb
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
- John Dryden
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