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“The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That swells and sinks amid the branches high,-- 'Tis all the music of the wind, and we Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.”

Music Wind Summer Breaths Forests Wander Fancy Branches Sigh Breeze Floats Filters Hush

Author:John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

“Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you.”

Joy Ability Music Dignity Absolutes Breaths Phrases Significance Passages Primitive Simplest Energetic Squeezing Motifs Dignity And Strength

Author:Robert Genn

“I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.”

Giving Feels Faces Music Audience Strange Musician Breaths Curious Dumb Concerts Glances Intimidating Paralyzed

Author:Frederic Chopin

“Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.”

Ifs Light Waiting Sound Music Heard Air Century Breaths Speed

Book:Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday

Source: Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday

“It is agreed that all sound which is the material of music is of three sorts. First is harmonica, which consists of vocal music; second is organica, which is formed from the breath; third is rhythmica, which receives its numbers from the beat of the fingers. For sound is produced either by the voice, coming through the throat; or by the breath, coming through the trumpet or tibia, for example; or by touch, as in the case of the cithara or anything else that gives a tuneful sound on being struck.”

Giving Firsts Three Sound Voice Numbers Music Cases Example Materials Music Is Beats Thirds Breaths Fingers Throat Vocal Trumpets Harmonicas Seville Vocal Music

Author:Isidore of Seville

“Truly to sing, that is a different breath.”

Different Music Breaths Piano Inspirational Music Music Theory

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.”

Heart Music Judgment Singing Performances Breaths Furry

Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.”

Ifs Long Care Music Breaths Green Jazz Don't Care I Don't Care Swings Purple Jazz Musician

Author:Miles Davis