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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.


Jean Cocteau

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THE WEEKND Good music makes you feel something.
ZAC BROWN Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects i...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects i...
GEORGE SANTAYANA All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was...
PETER WARLOCK All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
FRANK ZAPPA The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a ...
ETHAN COEN Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
DAVE MATTHEWS To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.
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DEXTER GORDON Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a ma...
ALEXANDER POPE The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Th...
CAM Jane, the family and the doctors keep me going.
CHARLES MUSIC We're trying to stay ahead of the ball game. We feel we will qualify for grants and loans that are p...
CHARLES MUSIC As we grow, we have to do a better job of treating the waste.
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SARAH MCLACHLAN The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
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AMY CAMPBELL If they're not going to play good music, I'd rather him play no music at all.
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ADRIANA LIMA When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to hel...
JOHN COLTRANE The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI The end of all good music is to affect the soul
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.
PRINCE Music is a really powerful way for me to catalyze all kinds of things. It's always been the cure...
JUANES I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was go...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.
ANN DEMEULEMEESTER When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will hav...
E. W. HOWE When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will hav...
EDGAR WATSON HOWE When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they've never had, and never will ...
E.W. HOWE It's good to be surrounded by black folks. Black folks are music.
JAMIE FOXX The fog was mysterious. The lights were mysterious. The music was "A-Tisket, A-Tasket".
ADAM REX Good music will make you forget all your misery.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assum...
EDUARD HANSLICK If there's one thing "music scene" is good at doing, its only making "news"!
PRAVIN PRAJAPATI If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.
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HANNAH HARRINGTON Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important t...
PATRICK STUMP My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a...
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Baez and Dyla...
BRENT M. JONES I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn&...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Music is my best friend. It listens to me, it understand the deepest feelings within me. The melody ...
ROSA M. BETANCES Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.
AMY GRANT Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
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PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
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JOSEPH STORY All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.
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BRIA SKONBERG Music — good music, great music — had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and d...
JULIAN BARNES I didn't aim at anything except good music.
WAYLON JENNINGS There's no crusade here, but I am trying to slip classical music in through the back door, ... I thi...
WILLIAM ORBIT There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
GAVIN BRYARS It's good for the market. It enables all digital music retailers to compete on a level playing field...
ALEXANDER ROSS I'm a huge fan of the music of Broadway, and I have an affinity for what I refer to as the Golden Ag...
BRIAN ALLEN Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
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FRANK MCCLAIN It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
SAM SMITH Bush getting elected was good for punk music. Now people have something to get pissed off about.
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CARLOS SANTANA Good music is a gateway to the soul.
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BARRY GIBB We talk ... he is mysterious. (But) it?s all good.
RUSSELL CROWE My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you be...
JOHN COLTRANE Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, stic...
FLOYD SKLOOT It's music to inspire children to feel the music, in melody and in rhythm. We want to inspire childr...
AUDREY MUELLER All good teams make a run, but that tip-in by (Coleman) really motivated us.
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STEVE JOBS I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
JOHN FRUSCIANTE Music is what feelings sound like.
IRWIN FEDERMAN Music is what feelings sound like.
EUGENE DELACROIX Music is what feelings sound like.
MARY ANNE RADMACHER Music is what feelings sound like.
JAMES DEAN Music is what feelings sound like.
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JESSIE WARE Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
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DOUG TRANTHAM There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.
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DANNY SHAFER It's something that I wanted to do, but I was real nervous and didn't do well. Seeing all the other ...
LAURA NUNEZ There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.
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BURNING SPEAR Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf
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