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“I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.”

Shows Kids Earth Mother Music Streets Honest Dad Kissing Daughter My Friends Being Honest My Daughter Buzz

Author:Ace Frehley

“Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!”

Men Earth Heaven Music Lord Saint Bad Man

Author:Izaak Walton

“Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.”

Men Earth Song Race Music Share Taught Honor And Love Reverence Muse Bards

Author:Homer

“music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.”

Earth Heaven Effort Music Music Is Missionary

Author:Rebecca West

“Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.”

Long Made Earth Fall Water Music Air Figures Fame Moon Rounds Active Graves Decent Strings Strokes Woven Tenors Saturn

Author:Abraham Cowley

“I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.”

Earth Beautiful Wish Music Beautiful Music

Book:The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920

Source: The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920

“It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.”

People Ifs Knows Want Important Ends Earth Natural Talking Music Records Groups Rocks Music Is Disaster Splits Reminiscing Keep Talking Old Records

Author:John Lennon

“If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.”

Ifs Knows Looks Earth Life Is Music

Author:Bob Marley

“In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it.”

Thinking Trying Earth Quality Music Fire Serious Wind Musician Died Clinton Touching Seventies Parliament Rejuvenation

Author:Maurice White

“Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”

Men Art Inspiration Earth Given Heaven Music Music Is Angel Piano Art And Music Poetry And Music Spiritual Music

Author:Walter Savage Landor

“Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”

Writing Earth Can Do Music Jazz Musical Thank God Composer Composing Writing Music Art And Music Famous Musician Classic Music Composing Music Classical Composers Classical Musicians Music Writing

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

Source: The Hobbit

“The earth has music for those who listen.”

“If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.”

Ifs Earth Music Rapture Playing Music Inspirational Music Music Life Music And Life Music Is Life

Author:Sydney Smith

“There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.”

Ifs Men Earth Music Music Is All Things Ears Musical Spheres Listening To Music Playing Music Reeds Inspirational Music Music And Life Sound And Music Hearing Music

Author:Lord Byron

“Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.”

Earth Music Sky Mines Jazz Musical

Author:Josephine Baker

“In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side - there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.”

Earth Song Order Sides Powerful Music Air Return Structure Carrie Territory Collapse Unleashed

Author:Gilles Deleuze

“The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...”

Humans Doe Earth Speak Sound Water Silence Music Listening Quiet Rain Rivers Hearing Tongue Forests Noise Desert Immense Puzzles

Author:Pablo Neruda

“If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.”

Ifs Thinking Men Kind Earth Force Perfect Music Greater Perfection Jazz Perfect Man Coltrane

Author:Elvin Jones

“Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.”

Art Reason Earth Music Sun Genuine Works Of Art

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)