"An envious heart makes a treacherous ear." — Zora Neale Hurston

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• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise… — Dave Barry
• Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch… — John Adams
• I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink. — Mario Batali
• Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves… — Thomas Beecham
• Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all… — Robert Benchley
• Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down… — Mary J. Blige
• To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation. — Andrea Bocelli
• Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart. — William Jennings Bryan
• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,… — Leo Buscaglia
• Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. — Samuel Butler
• When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it… — Maria Callas

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