Accelerando Music Quotes & Sayings

Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me. — George Steiner

If someone chooses to live a certain way, and it doesn't infringe on anyone's freedom, it's their choice to make. — Frank Sonnenberg

I wish I could say courteous flatteries to you," the farmer continued in an easier tone, "and put my rugged feeling into a graceful shape: but I have neither power nor patience to learn such things. — Thomas Hardy

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move. — Robert Smith

What liberates us is the light and love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

None of this 'different diets' lark. I can't remember the last time I tried some new fad. — Kate Winslet