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Music Theorist Inspirational Quotes (1385)

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In the dark, all cats are black.
John Cage
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I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
Saint Augustine
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Above all things, reverence yourself.
Pythagoras
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
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Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.
Arnold Schoenberg
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If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.
Johannes Kepler
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Everything is self-evident.
Rene Descartes
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Mathematics is the gate and key to science.
Roger Bacon
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He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.
Leon Battista Alberti
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When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.
Pythagoras
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There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.
Saint Augustine
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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Saint Augustine
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More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.
Pierre Boulez
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...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But even so, very much hard work remains to be done and one needs not only great perspicacity but often a degree of good fortune.
Christiaan Huygens
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The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
Rene Descartes
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If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, We dance. In the initiation customs of all peoples the dances play an especially important part. The dance is the center of wedding festivities.
Curt Sachs
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It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.
Pierre Schaeffer
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Tolle numerum omnibus rebus et omnia pereunt.Take from all things their number and all shall perish.
Isidore of Seville
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The world is no longer a romantic place some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.
John Cage
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Science is practical philosophy.
Rene Descartes
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And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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