"Mozart's music gives us permission to live."

Music, Joy, Freedom, Art

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

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Music, World

"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

Music, Day, Dream, Dreams, Life

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

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Music, Mistakes, Life, Practice

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Music, Truth, Happiness, Power, Inspirational

"Music is the language of the soul and the expression of deep inner feelings."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Music, Art, God

"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Music, Jazz, Humor, Truth

"They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Music, Regret, Today, Wisdom

"One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers."

Andrew Fletcher, Scottish Writer

Music, Careers, Old, Songs

"Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal."

Nelson Eddy, American Musician

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Explore more quotes by John Updike

"Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness."

Humility

"Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief."

Lust

"And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?"

Anticipation

"On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence."

Observation

"Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly, eventually you land on all the properties."

Divorce

"They've not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."

Obscurity

"We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe."

Existentialism

"In the purifying sweep of atheism human beings lost all special value. The numb misery of the horse was matched by that of the farmer; the once-green ferny lives crushed into coal's fossiliferous strata were no more anonymous and obliterated than Clarence's own life would soon be, in a wink of earth's tremendous time. Without Biblical blessing the physical universe became sherry horrible and disgusting. All fleshy acts became vile, rather than merely some. The reality of men slaying lambs and cattle, fish and fowl to sustain their own bodies took on an aspect of grisly comedy--the blood-soaked selfishness of a cosmic mayhem."

Existentialism

"The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die."

Mortality

"Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly."

Parenting