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Music Theorist Inspirational Quotes (1385)

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The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.
Saint Augustine
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
John Cage
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
Saint Augustine
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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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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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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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We have a very large constituency in the world from all of the years that we've done workshops, retreats, and talks. I would say there a few thousand people out there that have some relationship to what we do.
Pauline Oliveros
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Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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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I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.
Rene Descartes
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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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That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.
Saint Augustine
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Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening
Pauline Oliveros
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The Arts are learnt by reason and method they are mastered by practice.
Leon Battista Alberti
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For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.
Saint Augustine
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Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.
Saint Augustine
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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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In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.
Saint Augustine
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
John Cage
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The diversity of language alienates man from man
Saint Augustine
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Eternity is the now that does not pass away.
Saint Augustine
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It is required to find the infinitely big inside what's infinitely small to feel the presence of God.
Pythagoras
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Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.
Nadia Boulanger
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
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