"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music."

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"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music."

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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."

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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

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"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"

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"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."

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"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"

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"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

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"So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled into his soul through his ears, and gives up all his time to the glamorous moanings of song, the effect at first on his energy and initiative of mind, if he has any, is to soften it as iron is softened in a furnace, and made workable instead of hard and unworkable: but if he persists and does not break the enchantment, the next stage is that it melts and runs, till the spirit has quite run out of him and his mental sinews (if I may so put it) are cut, and he has become what Homer calls "a feeble fighter"."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."

"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"

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"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"

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