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"Music
creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity
upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the
disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the
incongruous."
--Yehudi Menuhin, world-famous violinist |
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"Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence and whereto."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young."
--Aristotle
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"Where words fail, music speaks."
-- Hans Christian Andersen
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"If music be the food of love, play on."
-- Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman."
-- Ludwig Van Beethoven
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"For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions."
-- Plato
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