Quotations: Music
"Music is the fourth great material want of
our nature; first food, then raiment, then shelter, then music."
-- Bovee
"But the memory of Bach is enduring, his fame
immortal and the love his beautiful music inspires increases from
year to year, wherever that music is known, all over the world."
-- Harriette Brower
"A very great deal is said of music-motif and
music-illustration, and it has been demonstrated again and again
that this is largely the effort of the ultra-artistic to discover
what is not there. At best, music is a "concord of sweet
sounds"—heroic, tender, exciting, etc.; but the elemental passions
and emotions are almost all it can define, or even suggest.
-- Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
“What tears I shed at Thy hymns and canticles, how
acutely was my soul stirred by the voices and sweet
music of Thy Church! As those voices entered my ears, truth
distilled in my heart, and thence divine affection welled up in a
flood, in tears o'erflowing, and happy was I in those tears.”
-- St. Augustine
-- A. Hunt
-- Richter
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