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“The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.”

Play Music Musician Strings Laughed Playing Music

Author:Horace

“How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?”

Reading Sound Imagination Music Musician Musical Score Strings Flutes Oboes

Book:Consciousness Explained

Source: Consciousness Explained

“Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.”

Long Made Earth Fall Water Music Air Figures Fame Moon Rounds Active Graves Decent Strings Strokes Woven Tenors Saturn

Author:Abraham Cowley

“Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.”

Years Children Mother Music Feet Musician Singing Sitting Piano Strings Dusk Vistas

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.”

May Play Order Language Sound Poor Music Musician Notes Neighbor Tone Strings Mastery Conventional Norm Violin Intervals Rendering Violinist Discrete

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!”

Death Dies Winning Music Magic Dying Proud Fame Strings Alas Memorial Noisy Inspirational Music

Book:The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table ...

Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table ...

“I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.”

Giving Mean Music Give Me Guitar Musical Bored Piano Strings Brooms

Author:Keith Richards

“The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.”

Humans Perfect Music Expression Behavior Music Is Strings Human Behavior Quartets String Quartets

Author:Jeffrey Tate