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You are the music while the music lasts.


T. S. Eliot

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You are the music while the music lasts.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT You are the music while the music lasts.
T.S. ELIOT You are the music while the music lasts.
T S ELLIOT Or music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the musi...
T.S. ELIOT People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
PAUL HINDEMITH Honestly, Mum, how can you say someone's a great writer if you've got a stack of reference books nex...
VAL MCDERMID But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will...
T.S. ELIOT Jane, the family and the doctors keep me going.
CHARLES MUSIC We're trying to stay ahead of the ball game. We feel we will qualify for grants and loans that are p...
CHARLES MUSIC As we grow, we have to do a better job of treating the waste.
CHARLES MUSIC Metal rusts, music lasts forever.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS And indeed there will be time
To wonder, 'Do I shed?' and, 'Do I shed?'
Time to turn back ...
HENRY N. BEARD Let us roam then, you and I,
When the evening is splayed out across the sky
[...]
Pat...
HENRY N. BEARD I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor ...
DAVID LISS The best music of any era lasts well, I think.
PETER ASHER This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied wi...
TOM PETTY It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be...
AKON There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don&...
JIMMY BUFFETT I just got into the Beatles a couple of years ago, you know, I like it.
ZIGGY MARLEY I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you ...
JOE HILL Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her, and while sh...
MARIE RUTKOSKI I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about musi...
MALIK BENDJELLOUL You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.
ZAKK WYLDE All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.
DARYL HALL I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy'...
JAMES YOUNG You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very ...
MICHAEL STIPE I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music i...
CASS MCCOMBS No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
BILLIE HOLIDAY If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Mus...
MIKE LOVE There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization witho...
CLIVE DAVIS I do not know of anything in modern poetry as violently hostile to contemporary life as was the poet...
DENNIS GABOR The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
ADAM KLUGER I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rappin...
NINA SIMONE You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always t...
ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ...
RACHEL COHN Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Ti...
GEORGE MARTIN Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but ja...
BILLY HIGGINS This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never las...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Let's make hay while it lasts.
JAMES LOVELOCK A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of...
ART BLAKEY Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't...
BRIAN ENO Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can...
BONO Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love
LOUIS-HECTOR BERLIOZ Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
HECTOR BERLIOZ Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the sa...
BILL LASWELL We strive hard for excellence in the music, while striving even harder for change outside the music.
R-SWIFT Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.
DUSTIN DIAMOND I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's developme...
MIKE FIGGIS Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever ...
LEON REDBONE I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn&...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON when somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand t...
ALAN W. WATTS I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge musi...
HUNTER HAYES The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.
CHARLIE HUNTER I'm just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there&#...
TRISTAN WILDS When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in ever...
LARRY MULLEN, JR. Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like...
KENNY G I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn'...
WATKIN TUDOR JONES Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
E. L. DOCTOROW Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is ess...
BARRY HANNAH You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically...
LANCE REDDICK Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don'...
MICHAEL FRANTI Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's bla...
F. GARY GRAY Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that...
MARK HOPPUS Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I...
KACEY MUSGRAVES What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, d...
MICKEY HART You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing...
HARRY STYLES Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that ...
CHRIS LOWE I think rock music is getting better. The best (selling) music has been hip-hop for quite a while. S...
BRANDON FLOWERS It's always been about making music. I've never gotten caught up with the trappings. You can...
AL JARREAU If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.
JOSH HOMME There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't kno...
CARLISLE FLOYD If you can't count, you can't play music. Music and math are the two most closely related subjects.
BRAD WHEELER The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and countr...
SHEENA EASTON Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't...
CHARLIE PARKER There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The Beatles were bubblegum cards and Help at the Saturday morning cinema and toy plastic guitars and...
NICK HORNBY The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for tre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They're kicking us out saying it's time to close
We're leaning on each other try'na beat the c...
THE SCRIPT Ever hear a song you love so much you wanna break sh*t?
JULIET SIMMS I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high m...
JOSHUA BELL Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.
BIJOU PHILLIPS Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal langu...
PAUL EPWORTH I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. ...
BAT FOR LASHES I don't think it's changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth introduced more r...
GARTH BROOKS People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English m...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older.
JOHNNY VAN ZANT I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are ac...
ADAM MCKAY One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the c...
RANDY HOUSER It's about the music, not the color of the person playing the music.
DARIUS RUCKER Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart a...
TEDDY THOMPSON I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my fr...
NATALIA KILLS I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.
JEFF BUCKLEY There's something about real music, dawg. It comes to you; you don't have to go to it.
BJ THE CHICAGO KID

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GEORGE ELIOT In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for th...
GEORGE ELIOT Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth li...
GEORGE ELIOT Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
GEORGE ELIOT No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
GEORGE ELIOT Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOT In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disco...
GEORGE ELIOT There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow...
GEORGE ELIOT What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOT How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances?...
GEORGE ELIOT There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOT Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be call...
GEORGE ELIOT The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
GEORGE ELIOT Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
GEORGE ELIOT But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...
GEORGE ELIOT Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying s...
GEORGE ELIOT