Honore De Balzac Quotes, Music Quotes, Two Quotes

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

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Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

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Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.

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If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

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Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

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Only dead people need loud music, you know.

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There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

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Once you discover that you can, then you must.

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If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

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All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

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It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

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Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.

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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

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