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Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

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If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

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Harold Hill: You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering. ↗

— Meredith Willson

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In the brightest hour of my darkest day, I realized what is wrong with me" ~Forever ↗

— Papa Roach

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They’d played “Sweet Home, Alabama” so many times I wanted to crash the party, kill the radio, and knife whoever was selecting the music. ↗

— Jennifer Estep

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Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there’s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for. ↗

— Andrea Gibson

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There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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Rehearsals and practice times by myself are like these little islands of 'Okay' in a vast sea of 'Holy Crap! ↗

— Jordan Sonnenblick

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One cannot deny that Duruflé's improvisations and compositions had their source and their summit in a climate of belief. And to that extent it may be said that his work as a liturgical organist 'becomes a real meditation. There is not merely a an auditory delight, as refined as it might be, and God knows that Maurice Duruflé was refined, but an interior elevation that disposes the heart and spirit of others to the the infinite encounter, to the radiance of divine contact. ↗

— James E. Frazier

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