Robert Frost Quotes, Music Quotes, Sound Quotes

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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LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

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PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

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The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

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Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

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Philosophy is the highest music.

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NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.

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The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

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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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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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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

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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 expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

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I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.

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

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The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

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