A Quote by Edmund Spenser

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

Edmund Spenser

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Discord Lay Makes Music Oft Sweeter

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Edmund Spenser
English - Poet
1552 - January 13, 1599

As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

Alexander Pope

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

William Shakespeare

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

George Santayana

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

Plutarch

For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

Sallust

I'm really excited to share the movie [Swiss Army Man] with people, so I'm glad that people are seeing it. And I want them to, because I think it's a really fun movie to experience sitting next to people. It makes it funnier. It makes it more comfortable. It makes it sweeter.

Paul Dano

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

Larry McMurtry

If you think about it, when you listen to music, music makes you cry. It makes you happy. It makes you dance. It makes you mad. Those are the same emotions that I experience when I feel the energy of a spirit when I'm contacting the spirit and communicating with it.

Zak Bagans

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.

William Shakespeare

And if there is sweeter music this side of heaven I haven't heard it.

Buster Keaton

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

Alexander Pope

Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them. Obviously, because it is more salient, you know? We might like going to the movies, and of course we like music too, but when the eyes don't work then the ears pick up slack. Music is all the sweeter at that point.