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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

“Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.”

Doe Music Greater Effects Accustomed Novelty

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”

Source: The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works

“Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.”

Knows Humans Wisdom Voice Race Music Greater Music Is Human Race Human Voice

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.”

Ifs Life Feels May Whole Moments Forget Music Greater Our Lives Imagine Objects Listening Music Is Imagine That Improving Symphony Finale

Author:Alan Watts

“You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.”

Might Music Greater Lovers Agree Singers Opera Bakers Opera Singers

Book:The Quotable Bertrand Russell

Source: The Quotable Bertrand Russell

“If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.”

Ifs Thinking Men Kind Earth Force Perfect Music Greater Perfection Jazz Perfect Man Coltrane

Author:Elvin Jones

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