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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Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

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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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The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

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I see my life in terms of music.

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I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

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My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

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Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

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You are the music while the music lasts.

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The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.

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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

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Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

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The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

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I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

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For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.

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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

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