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Musicologist Inspirational Quotes (3250)

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The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
Johannes Kepler
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense they're men of technique.
Robertson Davies
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It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
Oscar Peterson
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I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.
Rene Descartes
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Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.
Walter Scott
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For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think my mind only works with my legs.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing, as much as producing, creating, forcing, guiding, are necessary aspects of elaboration.
Edward Said
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A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.
Alejo Carpentier
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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
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Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us
Robert Burns
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The Arts are learnt by reason and method they are mastered by practice.
Leon Battista Alberti
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You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.
Pete Seeger
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Whoever declares a child to be delicate thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.
Robertson Davies
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The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
Robert Burns
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The work is the most important thing.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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The public doesn't want new music the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
Arthur Honegger
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Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.
Albert Schweitzer
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Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers.
Carl Sandburg
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Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.
Robert Burns
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The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.
Pete Seeger
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