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“Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.”

Art Music Ocean Music Is Clouds Wave Fluid Reverie Vapor

Author:Victor Hugo

“The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.”

Music Musician Sitting Instruments Dancing Clouds Harps Parlor Insipid Feasting

Author:Mason Cooley

“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”

Music Air Wind Type Performances Musical Clouds Sculpture Sculpting

Book:Real Frank Zappa Book

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.”

Ifs World Way Giving Reality Joy Voice Water Music Tears Sorrow Mountain Laughter Sitting Clouds Woods Hills Lakes Contemplating New Ways Tranquil Unrest Lamentation Mountain Lakes

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.”

Music Sky Failure Adversity Jazz Lifetime Clouds Passing Passings Gray American Football Sky And Clouds Gray Skies

Book:Music is my mistress

Source: Music is my mistress

“If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I”

Ifs Knows Dream Together Dies Music Forever Clouds Our Dreams

Author:Diana Ross

“He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy white cloud and listening to somebody playing on a harp, a picture of Heaven he had seen numerous times in one form or another. Even if it was that way, his personal preference would have run more to the fiddle.”

Source: The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country: Two Classic Westerns

“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.”