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Music Theorist Inspirational Quotes (1384)

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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.
Saint Augustine
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
Saint Augustine
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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.
Saint Augustine
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There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.
Pythagoras
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The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.
Saint Augustine
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We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
John Cage
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An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.
Thomas Campion
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Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
Saint Augustine
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There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
Pythagoras
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A fool is known by his speech and a wise man by silence.
Pythagoras
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The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.
Saint Augustine
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Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.
Nadia Boulanger
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The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.
Claudio Monteverdi
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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This world's a bubble.
Saint Augustine
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God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.
Saint Augustine
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[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes!
Nadia Boulanger
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I would not want you to suppose that my rejection of Allen Forte's theory of pitch-class sets implies a rejection of the notion that there can be such a thing as a pitch-class set. It is only when one defines everything in terms of pitch-class sets that the concept becomes meaningless.
George Perle
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He who knoweth not what he ought to know, is a brute beast among men he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts and he that knoweth all that may be known, is as a God among men.
Pythagoras
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They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.
Saint Augustine
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Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities look at the world!
Roger Bacon
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Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.
Saint Augustine
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