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Musicologist Inspirational Quotes (3250)

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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert Schweitzer
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There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.
Albert Schweitzer
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We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.
Albert Schweitzer
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The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.
Albert Schweitzer
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Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
Albert Schweitzer
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Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.
Albert Schweitzer
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer
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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer
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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
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If I think something is beautiful, there must be somebody out there who will agree with me.
William Kraft
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You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.
William Kraft
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.
Robertson Davies
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I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.
William R. Ferris
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There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film Gone With The Wind that looks back fondly at slavery as a time when everything was happily in place - in place for whites.
William R. Ferris
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We have, for generations, been trying to be more inclusive of the word Southern. And a symbol like the confederate flag indicates white only are allowed into that world. And removing the Confederate flag from public view to the pages of history is long overdue.
William R. Ferris
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Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as much freedom of the press as we think we have - although the traditional freedom of speech is strongly rooted in American culture.
Pete Seeger
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When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.
Joseph Haydn
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The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.
Eduard Hanslick
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We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.
Robert Schumann
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The world is my country. Science my religion.
Christiaan Huygens
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A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith a music which may touch upon all subjects without ceasing to touch upon God an original music, in short, whose language may open a few doors, take down some yet distant stars.
Olivier Messiaen
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People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.
Alan Lomax
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And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.
Alan Lomax
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