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Quotations About / On: MUSIC
 

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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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  The bird is lost,
Dead, with all the music:
While sunsets heard the brain's music
Faded to last horizon notes.

 
(Owen Dodson (b. 1914), U.S. poet. Yardbird's Skull (l. 1-4). . . Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1973) Harper & Row.)
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  O I shall hear skull skull,
Hear your lame music,
Believe music rejects undertaking,
Limps back.

 
(Owen Dodson (b. 1914), U.S. poet. Yardbird's Skull (l. 25-28). . . Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1973) Harper & Row.)
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  Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
 
(Van Morrison (b. 1945), Irish rock musician. Times (London, July 6, 1990).)
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  Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;

 
(Conrad Aiken (1889-1973), U.S. poet, novelist. Discordants (l. 1-4). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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  If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
 
(Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. letter, Aug. 23, 1917, to Pound's father. quoted in Humphrey Carpenter, A Serious Character, pt. 1, ch. 2 (1988). Pound's grandfather was a Quaker.)
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  Give me some music; music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.

 
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Cleopatra, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 2, sc. 5, l. 1-2.)
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  The music, yearning like a God in pain,
She scarcely heard:

 
(John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. The Eve of St. Agnes (l. 56-57). . . The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.)
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