“Sphere Music — Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music — pure, unmixed music — in which no wail mingles.”
August 5, 1838
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“People are like music; few, pure harmony... many, only noise.”
Original: (it) Le persone sono come la musica; poche, pura armonia... tante, solo rumore.
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The Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771) pp. 152-3

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As quoted in the preface of the book entitled Music of the Spheres by Guy Murchie (1961)
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Speech of Love.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

from the introduction to Music of the Spheres

“Sound is all our dreams of music. Noise is music's dreams of us.”
Sound Noise Varese Boulez, in Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music http://books.google.pl/books?id=FgDgCOSHPysC&pg=PA16&lpg=PA15&focus=viewport, edited by Christoph Cox, Daniel Warner. A&C Black, 2004. p. 16 http://books.google.pl/books?id=FgDgCOSHPysC&pg=PA16&lpg=PA15&focus=viewport.