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“I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry.”

Knows Loses Music Principles Pure Relentless Geometry

Book:Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.”

Done Hours Music Pure Limits Sweetness Diminish Lit Sorrowful Pettiness

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.”

“Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.”

Art Music Pure Connections Sensations

Book:On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music

Source: On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music

“When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea.”

Feels Mind Reality Song Music Produce Pure Tea Possessed Fragrance Joyous Tranquil Incense Without Music

Book:A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty

Source: A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty

“By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.”

World Feels Whole Seems Spirituality Reading Music Fire Tree Feet Sky Pure Glory Blue Green Deeper Scripture Whole World Glory Of God Reading The Scriptures

Author:Thomas Merton

“I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.”

Trying Mean Done Music Talent Pure Music Is Inspirational Music

Author:William Faulkner

“I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.”

Want Song Music Morning Magic Share Pure Music Is Medicine Coffee Mood Meals Bites Music Love I Love Music Inhale Good Meals Morning Coffee

Book:Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee

Source: Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee