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“What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.”

Source: Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays

“to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.”

Has Beens Lying Music Influence Moved Deny Ignorant Our Thoughts Deliberate Listening To Music

Author:Dessa Darling

“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”

“Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.”

Eye Spirit Lying Music Tired Musical Playing Music Eyelids Funny Music Still Waters Sweet Music Sweet Sleep Tired Eyes

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true”

Lying Effort Music Repeats Vicious

Author:Lady Gaga

“It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line”

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Book:Music is my mistress

Source: Music is my mistress

“I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.”

Believe Play Lying Music Jazz

Author:Stan Getz

“Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?”

Lying Easy Music Ears Confused Chairs

Book:129 Songs

Source: 129 Songs

“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”

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Author:John Milton

“As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.”

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Book:Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

“I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.”

“He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy white cloud and listening to somebody playing on a harp, a picture of Heaven he had seen numerous times in one form or another. Even if it was that way, his personal preference would have run more to the fiddle.”

Source: The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country: Two Classic Westerns

“All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.”

Long Lying Music Sun

Author:Frank Sinatra