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Music Theorist Inspirational Quotes (1384)

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There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.
Saint Augustine
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Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.
Saint Augustine
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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
John Cage
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One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.
Saint Augustine
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown.
Saint Augustine
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Baptism is not the work of man but of Christ, and this sacrament is so holy that it would not be defiled, even if the minister were a murderer.
Isidore of Seville
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Now is the month of Maying, When merry lads are playing. Fa la la... Each with his bonny lass, upon the greeny grass. Fa la la... The Spring clad all in gladness, Doth laugh at winter's sadness. Fa la la.
Thomas Morley
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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
John Cage
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.
Saint Augustine
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Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)
Boethius
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
Saint Augustine
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Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.
John Cage
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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.
Saint Augustine
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We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If you understand, it is not God.
Saint Augustine
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Abstract truth is the eye of reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
Gottfried Leibniz
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
Pythagoras
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