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Musicologist Inspirational Quotes (3249)

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Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument.
Thomas Campbell
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But deep this truth impressed my mind — Thro' all his works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.
Robert Burns
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Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.
Rudolf Steiner
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Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o'daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.
Robert Burns
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
Romain Rolland
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When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.
Robertson Davies
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Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.
Arthur Honegger
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noise is a pollution.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.
Robert Schumann
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A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man
Arthur Schopenhauer
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In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Love affairs are for emotional sprinters the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.
Robertson Davies
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Anger is energy, and you've got to find a place to put it that works for you.
Bruce Cockburn
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'
Carl Sandburg
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Dear to me is my bonnie white steed Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.
Walter Scott
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Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
Walter Scott
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
Walter Scott
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
Walter Scott
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Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
Walter Scott
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