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“Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love.”

Pain Hate Lost Music Trouble Quiet And Love Trumpets Peace And Quiet

Author:Ann Petry

“Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.”

Men Pain Grows Half Music Laughing Poet Cost Rivers Beast Sigh Reeds True God

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?”

Knows Men Mind Pain Causes Music Study Ass Usual

Author:William Shakespeare

“I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!”

Pain Sound Attention Music Streets Endless Sat Italian Opera Sheer Anguish Torment Obliged Crowded Solace Barren Inexplicable Crowded Streets

Book:The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

Source: The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

“Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.”

Pain Joy Grief Music Fate Please Despair Madness Rage Ease Bliss Charm

Book:The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author

Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

“You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.”

Pain Causes Music Baby Ass Secret Love Baby Girl Baby Boy

Author:Frank Sinatra

“I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.”

Believe Pain I Believe Stars Responsibility Music Share Duty Musician Musical Reach Out

Author:James Taylor

“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”

People Heart Kids Pain Song Culture Loss Music Worry Violence Sadness Broken Listening Gun Misery Scared Violent Video Teenager Rejection Fidelity Kids Playing

Book:High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.”

Should Humans Long Doe Pain Energy Sound Space Music Cases Forever Cutting Fields Sweet Goes On Ears Notes Wave Patterns Barriers Cosmic Barrels Bounce

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“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.”

“Give me a shot to remember And you can take all the pain away from me A kiss and I will surrender The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead A light to burn all the empires So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be And I'm in love with all of those vampires So you can leave like the sane abandoned me”

Giving Light Pain Remember Music Sun Kissing Shots Give Me Surrender Vampire Ashamed Empires Abandoned Sane

Author:Gerard Way

“And I don't regret the rain Or the nights I felt the pain Or the tears I had to cry Some of those times along the way. Every road I had to take, Every time my heart would break, It was just something that I had to get through, To get me to you.”

Way Heart Pain Night Felt Music Break Cry Tears Regret My Heart Rain Don't Regret

Author:Lila McCann