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"There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music."	Jim Davis
"Number is the Word but is not utterance; it is wave and light, though no one sees it; it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number."	Maurice Druon
"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't."	Bruce Jenner
"Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world."	Giuseppe Mazzini
"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays."	Oscar Wilde
"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland."	Woody Allen
"You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart."	Author Unknown
"Play the music, not the instrument."	Author Unknown
"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words."	Robert G. Ingersoll
"Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead."	Benjamin Disraeli
"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance."	Dave Barry
"I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation."	George Bernard Shaw
"He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once."	Robert Browning
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played 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 great streetsweeper who did his job well."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."	Kahlil Gibran
"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."	Ludwig van Beethoven
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be."	Abraham Maslow
"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."	Henry Ward Beecher
"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"Chaos is a friend of mine."	Bob Dylan
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Abraham Maslow	Agnes de Mile	Albert Einstein
Aldous Leonard Huxley	Alfred A. Montapert	Angela Monèt
Aretha Franklin	Author Unknown	Benjamin Disraeli
Berthold Auerbach	Bob Dylan	Bruce Jenner
Dave Barry	Dave Navarro	Ed Gardner
Edgar Watson Howe	Eric Anderson	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Geoffrey Latham	George Bernard Shaw	George Eliot
George Gordon Byron	Gerald Early	Giuseppe Mazzini
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Ward Beecher	Henry Miller
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jim Davis	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Lennon	Joseph Addison	Julius Henry Marx
June Masters Bacher	Kahlil Gibran	Leonard Bernstein
Ludwig van Beethoven	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Maurice Druon
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	Oscar Wilde
Phillips Brooks	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Rebecca West
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert Browning	Robert G. Ingersoll
Russell Lynes	Samuel Butler	Sidney Lanier
Stan Getz	Stephen	Susanne Millen
Thomas Carlyle	Tori Amos	Truman Capote
T.S. Eliot	Victor Hugo	Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Walter J. Lippmann	Warren G. Bennis	William F. Buckley
William Shakespeare	Woody Allen