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Musicologist Inspirational Quotes (3250)

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The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
Robertson Davies
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It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.
Rene Descartes
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Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
Pierre Schaeffer
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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
Robert Schumann
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It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.
Eddie Trunk
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One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now!
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Suspense is worse than disappointment.
Robert Burns
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Most of the time, our deeper, stronger feelings are things we all have in common.
Bruce Cockburn
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
John Cage
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Humid seal of soft affections, Tend'rest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.
Robert Burns
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The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.
David Foster
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Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.
Pythagoras
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Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?
Robert Burns
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We are born, so to speak, twice over born into existence, and born into life born a human being, and born a man.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.
Pete Seeger
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I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.
Arnold Schoenberg
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The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
Robertson Davies
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Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as torment, as disharmony.
Rudolf Steiner
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Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.
Rudolf Steiner
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My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.
Albert Schweitzer
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