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“You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content; and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician.”

Way Heart Certain Song Music Greater Musician Combination Variation Latitude

Book:Commentaries on Living 1

Source: Commentaries on Living 1

“Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.”

Years Looks Remember Certain Music Painting Months Music Is Execution

Author:Robert Genn

“The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.”

Certain Animal Music Class Minutes Effects Terrible Harmony Delight Concerts Thunder

Book:A Philosophical Dictionary

Source: A Philosophical Dictionary

“Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.”

Certain Values Music Quiet Music Is Serene Great Music

Book:The Saga of the Century: The Fountain Overflows, This Real Night, and Cousin Rosamund

Source: The Saga of the Century: The Fountain Overflows, This Real Night, and Cousin Rosamund

“One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.”

People Should Looks Art Political Artist Certain Interesting Music Source Politician Framework Interesting Things Art And Music Shaping The Future

Author:Thom Yorke

“Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.”

People Way Country States America Certain United Music United States Expression Music Is Ideals Independence Jazz United States Of America Barometer Complete Freedom

Author:Duke Ellington

“Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.”

Certain Suffering Order Music Degrees Musician Jazz Outlets

Author:Chico Hamilton

“There was passion, there was laughter The first morning after I just couldn't get my feet to touch the ground Everytime we were together We talked about forever I was certain it was Heaven We had found.”

Firsts Together Certain Passion Found Heaven Music Morning Forever Feet Laughter Morning After

Author:Lee Ann Womack

“Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.”

Ifs Long Soul States Whole Character Form Certain Passion Music Morality Long Time Listening To Music Ignoble

Author:Aristotle