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“If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have a...”
“...seeing ghosts and demons just lends itself to listening to White Zombie and Slayer and Fantomas on repeat. One Direction and Selena Gomez are for the girls who dont see dead people every fucking...”
“And the waitress is practicing politicsAs the businessmen slowly get stonedYes, they're sharing a drink they call lonelinessBut its better than drinkin' alone”
“Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.”
“I do not have to hear your most favourite music.I hear your sweet silent music all the time.Petra Cecilia Maria HermansSeptember 10, 2016Amen”
“If words are not music, they have failed your song.”
“Tonight I heard Louis's horn. My father heard it, too. The wind was right, and I could hear the notes of taps, just as darkness fell. There is nothing in all the world I like better than the trumpe...”
“Music repairs us when it breaks the silence.”
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
“And another thing about German symphonic development: [it's] just like German philosophy, all worked out and systematized. When a German thinks, he reasons his way to a conclusion. Our Russian brot...”
“... and it occured to me then and forever afterwards, that films, theatre books and poems were just a fraud. It's only music that doesn't deceive, it doesn't pretend to be anything else except what...”
“Suddenly high song awakens me, and I leave all this tedious routine far, far distant; I listen, till all the world is changed, and the beautiful earth becomes more beautiful.”
“[T]he piano was to Harlem what brass bands had been to New Orleans. The instrument represented conflicting possibilities -- a pathway for assimilating traditional highbrow culture, a calling card o...”
“You dont go to a show because you think someone in the band is hot. You dont go because they always wear this cool, awesome outfit, or have the right hair. Those things are part of what makes up th...”
“Hip hop in my veins, if you cut cut me I will bleed.”
“The songs were all either fast or sad. Because all songs should be either fast or sad.”
“Music is powerful. It sets the mind and body and soul free in a way that I've never fully been able to understand. Maybe because it's not meant to be understood. It's simply meant to be experienced.”
“The power of sacred music increases the honor given to God by the Church in union with Christ, its Head. Sacred music likewise helps to increase the fruits which the faithful, moved by the sacred h...”
“I am not an angry girlBut it seems like Ive got everyone fooledEvery time I say something they find hard to hearThey chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear”
“Music begins where the possibilities of language end”
