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John Dryden | Music Quotes
And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears, And music more melodious than the spheres.
John Dryden
Their heavenly harps a lower strain began, and in soft music mourn the fall of man.
John Dryden
[Music] is inarticulate poesy.




John Dryden
What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
John Keats
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep?
John Keats | Music Quotes
The music, yearning like a God in pain.
John Keats
Music's golden tongue
Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.
Aldous Huxley
Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.
Aldous Huxley
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Pythagoras
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacings of the spheres.
Pythagoras | Music Quotes
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.




Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight.
William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love, play on.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Thomas Mann
“Beer, tobacco, and music,” he went on. “Behold the Fatherland.”
Thomas Mann | Music Quotes
My aversion from music rests on political grounds.
Oliver Goldsmith
Oh sir! I must not tell my age.
They say women and music should never be dated.
John Milton
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Plutarch
Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.


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