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Music Theorist Inspirational Quotes (1384)

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True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.
Saint Augustine
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The new limitations are the human ones of perception.
Milton Babbitt
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret. Acta eruditorum
Gottfried Leibniz
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Every artists wants to be applauded
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Every bit of theorizing I've ever done, including my interest in Berg, has come as a consequence of discoveries I made as a composer and interests that I developed as a composer. I never thought of my theory as being a kind of irrelevant activity to my composing.
George Perle
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Abstain from animals.
Pythagoras
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Noise tri­umphs and reigns supreme over the sen­si­bil­ity of men.
Luigi Russolo
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I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.
Saint Augustine
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Not all who own a harp are harpers.
Marcus Terentius Varro
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De omnibus dubitandum
Rene Descartes
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Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
Saint Augustine
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Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.
Pythagoras
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
John Cage
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When a certain piece of music penetrates a person, a resonance is set in motion and an inner voice says: I like this resonance. It elevates me. It develops hitherto unknown possibilities in me. I don't recognize myself. This is very interesting.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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It is not necessarily impossible for human beings to fly, but it so happens that God did not give them the knowledge of how to do it. It follows, therefore, that anyone who claims that he can fly must have sought the aid of the devil. To attempt to fly is therefore sinful.
Roger Bacon
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
Saint Augustine
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It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it.
Rene Descartes
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him He will welcome you and heal you.
Saint Augustine
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I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this.
Pauline Oliveros
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
Saint Augustine
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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
Saint Augustine
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