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Music Theorist Inspirational Quotes (1384)

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It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.
Pythagoras
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...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
Boethius
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The English people think they are free they are greatly deceived they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
John Cage
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
John Cage
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For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.
Saint Augustine
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It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for God is Charity (1John 4:8)
Albertus Magnus
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You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.
Arnold Schoenberg
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It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful it is as though my book were dining with me.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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He lives well who is well hidden.
Rene Descartes
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As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.
Luigi Russolo
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Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.
Saint Augustine
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Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.
Curt Sachs
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There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.
Rene Descartes
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I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The Tower designed by the visual artist Ann Hamilton.
Pauline Oliveros
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
Saint Augustine
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The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.
Roger Bacon
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Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.
Saint Augustine
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The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.
Pythagoras
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The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
Saint Augustine
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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
Saint Augustine
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In the dark, all cats are black.
John Cage
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