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“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.”

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Author:Thomas Moore

“All you need is love.”

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Book:The Songs of John Lennon: The Beatles Years

Source: The Songs of John Lennon: The Beatles Years

“The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.”

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Book:The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire

Source: The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire

“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”

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Book:A George Jean Nathan Reader

Source: A George Jean Nathan Reader

“The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.”

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Book:Not That You Asked...

Source: Not That You Asked...

“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”

Source: The Way of All Flesh

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”

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Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.”

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays