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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything
A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
He who sings frightens away his ills
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without
To produce music is also in a sense to produce children
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