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"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams."	Eric Anderson
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."	Walter J. Lippmann
"Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard."	Warren G. Bennis
"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
"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years."	William F. Buckley
"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often."	Samuel Butler
"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever."	June Masters Bacher
"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."	Julius Henry Marx
"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."	Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."	Leonard Bernstein
"Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art."	Joseph Addison
"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
"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words."	Robert G. Ingersoll
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent."	Victor Hugo
"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy."	Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life."	Stephen
"Music is Love in search of a word."	Sidney Lanier
"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."	Oscar Wilde
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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