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MUSIC: A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh, U.S. writer and aviator, 1906-2001Corporations: The power of all corporations ought to be limited . . . . The growing wealth accumulated by them never fails to be a source of abuses. (James Madison, Father of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth president of the United States, 1751-1836)
MUSIC: A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh, U.S. writer and aviator, 1906-2001)
MUSIC: Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. (Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer, 1876-1973)
MUSIC: A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. (Colin Wilson, English writer, philosopher and novelist, 1931-2013)
MUSIC: Classical music isn’t the kind that we keep thinking will turn into a tune. (Frank McKinney, U..S. Olympic swimmer and prominent executive in the American banking industry, 1938-1992)
MUSIC: Jazz came to America 300 years ago in chains. (Paul Whiteman, bandleader, composer, and orchestral director, often referred to as the King of Jazz, 1890-1967)
MUSIC: Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. (Ornette Coleman, U.S. jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, composer, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1930-2015)
MUSIC: Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. (John Philip Sousa, U..S. music conductor, composer of military marches and known best for the ‘Stars and Stripes Forever’, 1854-1932)
MUSIC: Music is almost a miracle, for it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter. (Heinrich Heine, German poet, journalist, and literary critic, 1797-1856)
MUSIC: Music is the art of thinking with sounds. (Jules Combarieu, French musicologist and music critic, 1859-1916)
MUSIC: Music touches places beyond our touching. (Keith Bosley, British poet and translator, 1937-2018)
MUSIC: The devil does not stay where music is. (Martin Luther, German professor of theology, composer, priest, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, 1483-1546)
MUSIC: Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. (Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, 1792-1868)
MUSIC: After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher, 1894-1963)
MUSIC: Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. (Robert Browning, English poet and playwright, 1812-1889)
MUSIC: How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. (Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, 1792-1868)
MUSIC: Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. (H.L. Mencken, German-American journalist and social critic, 1880-1956)
MUSIC: A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. (Benny Green, hard bop jazz pianist, Born 1963)
MUSIC: I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. (Igor Stravinsky, Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor who is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century, 1882-1971)
MUSIC: The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides! (Arthur Schnabel, Austrian-American classical pianist, composer and pedagogue who was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, 1882-1951)
MUSIC: Chamber music - a conversation among friends. (Catherine Drinker Bowen, U.S. writer and recipient of the National Book Award, 1897-1973)
MUSIC: Music is the universal language of mankind. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, U.S. poet and educator, 1807-1882)
MUSIC: Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean thing. (John Erskine, U.S. educator, author, and musician, 1879-1951)