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Laurie Anderson

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.


Maya Angelou

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.


W. H. Auden

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.


Berthold Auerbach

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.


Les Baxter

Any good music must be an innovation.


Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.


Benjamin Britten

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.


Robert Browning

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.


Thomas Carlyle

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.


William Congreve

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.


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