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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. - Talking to Myself.
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. - Talking to Myself.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: read more
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh, as he sits by the river,
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Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh, as he sits by the river,
Making a poet out of a man.
The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain--
For the reed that grows never more again
As a reed with the reeds of the river.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies read more
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
