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Music, ho, music such as charmeth sleep!
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Titania, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 4, sc. 1, l. 83.
"Charmeth" means induces like a charm.)
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If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
(Josι Bergamνn (1895-1983), Spanish writer. El cohete y la estrella (The Rocket and the Star), p. 70, Madrid, Biblioteca de Indice (1923).)
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How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we are marching into battle against an enemy.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sδmtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 3, p. 325, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Dawn, "Fifth Book," aphorism 557, "Into Battle Against an Enemy," (1881).)
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Hearing often-times
The still, sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue.
(William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, l. 90-3, Lyrical Ballads (1798).)
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Hearing often-times
The still, sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue.
(William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, l. 90-3, Lyrical Ballads (1798).)
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If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
(Josι Bergamνn (1895-1983), Spanish writer. El cohete y la estrella (The Rocket and the Star), p. 70, Madrid, Biblioteca de Indice (1923).)
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Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 357, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
(Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Aphorism 365 in Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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