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"In music the passions enjoy themselves."	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Music is the vernacular of the human soul."	Geoffrey Latham
"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."	George Eliot
"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."	George Eliot
"Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties."	George Bernard Shaw
"The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary…. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise."	George Bernard Shaw
"I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation."	George Bernard Shaw
"Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition."	George Bernard Shaw
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."	George Gordon Byron
"I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball."	Gerald Early
"Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world."	Giuseppe Mazzini
"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."	Henry Miller
"Music is the universal language of mankind."	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."	Henry Ward Beecher
"Of all the earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart."	Henry Ward Beecher
"Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself."	Henry Ward Beecher
"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"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
"I call architecture frozen music."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We're more popular than Jesus Christ now."	John Lennon
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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