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“Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring, the comfort that this day doth bring.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.”
“The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.”
Source: Commentaries on Living 1
Source: The Letters of Robert Frost
“The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925
Source: The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer
Source: Poetical works
“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.”
Source: The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
“Without music I should wish to die.”
Source: Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay
“The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria
Source: Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay
Source: Music and imagination
Source: Friends and fiddlers
Source: On Music and Musicians
Source: Consciousness Explained