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“Without a song, each day would be a century.”

Would Be Song Music Century Each Day

Author:Mahalia Jackson

“Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth!”

Thinking Knows Would Be Able Desire Reading Born Music Century Research Blessed Library Pity Museums Unending

Author:Wanda Landowska

“I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.”

Stories Dream Song Fall Music Sea Century Cry Singing Rhythm Ancestor Falling Down Lullaby

Book:Composed: A Memoir

Source: Composed: A Memoir

“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

“the hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.”

Born Music Century Listening Purity Chill Hymns Licking Icicles

Book:Manhattan Memoir

Source: Manhattan Memoir

“There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.”

“The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.”

Firsts Music Modern Century Strength Hero First Time Combination Purity Adolescence Typical Twentieth Century Spontaneity Modern Times Wagner Physical Strength Joie De Vivre

Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

“But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.”

Real Beauty Music Century Example Harmony 20th Century Equations

Author:Edward Witten

“Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.”

America Music Century Jazz Accurate 20th Century

Author:Ken Burns