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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
Good music is very close to primitive language.
Denis Diderot
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
Zhuangzi
The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
Fiona Apple
But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness
John Green
They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever.
Terry Pratchett
Music is the emotional life of most people.
Leonard Cohen
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
Plato
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank Zappa
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald Reagan
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Oscar Wilde
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke Ellington
The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
Neil Young
I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
James Brown
I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
Country music is about new love and it's about old love.
Jeff Foxworthy
Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
Lady Gaga
I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.
Kristin Scott Thomas