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John Millington Synge

"A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it."

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"A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."

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"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."

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"Music is the language of the heart, it makes our soul dance with joy."

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"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

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"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."

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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

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"A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again."
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