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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
But Bellenden we needs must praise,
Who as down the stairs she jumps
Sings o'er the hill read more
But Bellenden we needs must praise,
Who as down the stairs she jumps
Sings o'er the hill and far away,
Despising doleful dumps.
- Unattributed Author,
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
