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"Of all the earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart."	Henry Ward Beecher
"Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune."	Phillips Brooks
"We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends."	Alfred A. Montapert
"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have."	Edgar Watson Howe
"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
"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."	George Eliot
"Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold."	Susanne Millen
"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
"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
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."	Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."	Julius Henry Marx
"I don't know which will go first-rock 'n' roll or Christianity."	John Lennon
"The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung."	Phillips Brooks
"[Ragtime] was a fanfare for the 20th century."	Russell Lynes
"I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from time to time I'll think I'm the greatest gift to music and the coolest guy who ever lived, but that happens maybe an hour out of the week. Some days I'm more concerned with how my hair looks than what my guitar sounds like."	Dave Navarro
"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings."	Ed Gardner
"The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you."	John Lennon
"The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."	Walter J. Lippmann
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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
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