MUSIC QUOTATIONS

1. A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers. (Bernstein)
2. We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. (L.E. Landon)
3. For is not music language? And of what is it the language? Is it not the language of the dream world, the world beyond thought?(Roberston Davies)
4. Without music, life would be a mistake. ...I would only believe in a God that knew how to dance. (Nietzsche)
5. Music hath charms to sooth the savage beast.(James Bramston)
6. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. (Chopin)
7. Music was born free, and to win freedom is destiny. (Busoni)
8. The music in my heart I bore, long after it was heard no more.(Wordsworth)
9. There is no truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music. (Robert Browning)
10. A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.(Nadia Boulanger)

All quotes are taken from Music Lover's Quotation Book," compiled and edited by
Kathleen Kimball, Robin Petersen, and Kathleen Johnson.

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