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- Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. — George Eliot
- Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. — Samuel Butler
- 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. — Plato
- Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content. — Michael Tilson Thomas
- Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director. — Michael Tilson Thomas
- I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience. — Michael Tilson Thomas