Six Quotes About Music

"Music tells us something is right in this world. There is something
that checks throughout, that follows
its own laws consistently, something
we can trust, something that will
never let us down."
-- Leonard Bernstein / THE JOY IN
MUSIC --

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"Phrasing in music, is the ability to make the moments of a song, the
chord changes and other techniques,
your OWN; to MOVE on the song in
your own rhythms and urgencies and
delights."
-- James Dickey / SELF-INTERVIEWS --

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"Music is an organized time experience, arranged by the composer."
-- Claude Debussy --

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"For children who have lost faith in
the emotional reliability of adults,
or have never experienced basic trust, music can be a stabilizing
influence; a recurrrent emotional
experience which can be trusted because it is not directly human."
-- Anthony Storr / THE DYNAMICS OF
CREATION --

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"The basic building blocks of nature
are number and pattern. The universe
is not made out of matter, but out of music."
-- Pythagoras -- (500 B.C.)

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"The anonymously written tune, 'God
Save the Queen,' has been used by
over 140 composers, including Haydn,
Beethoven, and Brahms. It is a
patriotic song or anthem, past or
present, in England, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Liechenstein, Switzerland, and the USA (My Country, 'Tis of Thee).

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