"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."

Music, Laughter, Sound, World

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, Song

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, People, Ideas, Being

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Music, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, Land, World

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Music, Crime, Cruelty, Oppression

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Music, Truth, Memory, Happiness

"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."

Nancy Sinatra, American Musician

Music, Daughter

"The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song."

Gene Clark, American Musician

Music, Song, Writing

"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Music, Night, Snow, Rain

"We became the songs we wrote."

Barry Mann, American Musician

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"I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal."

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"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

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"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."

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"I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first."

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"Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died."

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"I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day."

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"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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

"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

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

"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."

"The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song."

"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

"We became the songs we wrote."

Explore more quotes by Peter Ustinov

"I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal."

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."

"I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first."

"Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died."

"I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day."

"If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue."

"The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought."

"Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them."

"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."