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“Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.”

Giving Humans Made Joy Sound Voice Human Beings Music Sweet Capable Appreciate Instruments Musical Delight Hearing Tone Exquisite Harmonious Musical Instruments Human Voice

Author:Brigham Young

“And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.”

Music Divine Ears Harmony Tone Charming Delighted

Author:John Milton

“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

“Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”

Sound Music Notes Storm Tone

Book:Beethoven: The Man and the Artist

Source: Beethoven: The Man and the Artist

“Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words”

Giving Doe Music Tone

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.”

Way Trying Wells Play Music Originals Jazz Musical Technique Tone Originality Pencils

Author:Lester Young

“It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen. They must be constructed....To demonstrate any formal idea in music, whether structure or stricture, is a matter of construction, in which the methodology is the controlling metaphor of the composition...Only by 'unfixing' the elements traditionally used to construct a piece of music could the sounds exist in themselves--not as symbols, or memories which were memories of other music to begin with.”

Ideas Matter Happens Used Sound Memories Music Pieces Subjects Elements Structure Metaphor Symbols Tone Melody Construction Composition Formal Constructs Methodology

Author:Morton Feldman

“Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply into American blues, gospel, folk hymnody, and hill country dance music. To that gumbo, he added the invigorating rhythms and harmonies of hot jazz. It was a new kind of American music, named in honor of his band The Blue Grass Boys to be known, simply, as bluegrass.”

“Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.”

Kind Has Beens Said Universe Heaven Sound Music Harmony Tone Framed Without Music Seville Harmony In Music

Author:Isidore of Seville