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Quotes of the Day for 20 December 2004 - Music

One constant and reassuring aspect of the Christmas season is the music, covering all genres, from the dreadful to the divine.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
     - Berthold Auerbach, 1812 - 1882

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
     - Billy Joel

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.
     - Edgar Watson Howe, 1853 - 1937

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.
     - Heinrich Heine, 1797 - 1856

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; no, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.
     - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 - 1832

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
     - Leonard Bernstein, 1918 - 1990

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