An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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  1. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. - Frank Zappa

  2. Music is. .. A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy - Ludwig Van Beethoven

  3. Philosophy is the highest music. - Plato

  4. Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul. - Plato

  5. The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution. - Noah Levine

More Quotes By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  1. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

  2. Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

  3. No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

  4. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

  5. Silence does not always mark wisdom.

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