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The earth has music for those who listen.

If music be the food of love, play on, play on, play on.

If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep the streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a streetsweeper who did his job well.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Disco is to music what Etch-A-Sketch is to art.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that."

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

This is not something you retire from. It's your life. Writing songs and playing is like breathing you don't stop.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

A woman, like music, should have a good end.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.