 | "The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music ?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is ?' My answer to that would be, 'No'."
- Aaron Copland
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| "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
- Aldous Huxley
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| "Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
- Bill Nye
, quoted in Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1924. |
| "An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger."
- Dan Rather
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| "My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
- Edith Sitwell
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| "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
- Elvis Presley
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| "Only sick music makes money today."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
- G. K. Chesterton
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| "I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."
- George Eliot
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| "Music is essentially useless, as life is."
- George Santayana
, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4. |