This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Katharine Hepburn, fully Katharine Houghton Hepburn
You can’t change the music of your soul.
Listen to your favorite music. I’m a big advocate of letting patients listen to music through headphones while they are asleep during surgery. It’s been reported they wake up more clearheaded and calm than other patients
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Does music make plants grow, or are there among the plans some that are musical?
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The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.
Despair | Joy | Life | Life | Music | Phenomena | Reality | Sadness | Silence |
If you want to understand music better, you can do nothing more important than to listen to it.
Better | Important | Music | Nothing | Understand |
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
Conversation | Thought | Learn |
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Conspiracy | Conversation | Diversion | Ends | People | Public |