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“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

“The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return.”

Men Long Song Father Sound Water Music Hair Return Musician Spring Crosses Depth Edges Fishes Curse Old Man Village Midnight Mistress Our Father Violin Dripping Long Hair Perdition Mulattoes

Author:Jacques Roumain

“In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.”

House Water Race Music Doors Fool Cold Albums Confusion Abundance Rats Vibrations Confrontation Thirsty Rat Race

Author:Bob Marley

“I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.”

Stars Water Music Fame Add Instant Rock Star Superhuman Chameleon Death Star Timeless Music

Author:David Bowie

“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

“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.”

Source: Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

“Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.”

Passion Sound Water Silence Music Listening Quiet Rain Rivers Hearing Noise Dumb Streams Flood Shallow

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch

“The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...”

Humans Doe Earth Speak Sound Water Silence Music Listening Quiet Rain Rivers Hearing Tongue Forests Noise Desert Immense Puzzles

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.”

Funny Water Music Humorous Stronger Symphony Scotch Mendelssohn

Author:Victor Borge

“I'm just trying to unite the western crowd and the bluegrass crowd a little more. ... I get to do that again on my new album, Tall Grass and Cool Water.... This is the first time I've had every song on an album be a Bluegrass and Cowboy Song at the same time.”

Trying Firsts Littles Song Water Music First Time Western Albums Crowds Grass Tall Cowboy Bluegrass Cool Water

Author:Michael Martin Murphey

“I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder”

Wanted Sound Water Music Records Guitar Muddy Blues Music

Author:Eric Clapton

“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.”