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Fugues Quotes By William Shakespeare

Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so,
Not what is dangerous present, but the los
Of what is past. — William Shakespeare

Fugues Quotes By Pablo Casals

It is not a mechanical routine but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and I play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being. The music is never the same for me, never. Each day is something new, fantastic, unbelievable. That is Bach, like nature, a miracle! — Pablo Casals

Fugues Quotes By Pablo Casals

For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner ... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach ... It is a sort of benediction on the house. — Pablo Casals

Fugues Quotes By Allan Sherman

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it. — Allan Sherman

Fugues Quotes By Robert Bly

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this. — Robert Bly

Fugues Quotes By Charles Spurgeon

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering. — Charles Spurgeon

Fugues Quotes By Edward Hoagland

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer. — Edward Hoagland

Fugues Quotes By Kate Grenville

He sat in the chapel for hours picking his way through fugues. A dozen notes, hardly music. But then those few notes spoke to each other, subject and answer, by repetition, by diminution, by augmentation, even looping backwards on themselves in a course like the retrograde motion of Mars. He listened as if he had as many ears as fingertips, and, like a blind man, could feel textures that were barely there. At the end of two or three pages of music he would hear all the voices twining together in a construction of such dizzying power that the walls of the chapel could barely contain it. — Kate Grenville

Fugues Quotes By Patrick Modiano

Did you see her again in France?" I asked him."

"No. When I got to France, she was already dead. She committed suicide ..."

"Why?"

"She often told me she was frightened of getting old... — Patrick Modiano

Fugues Quotes By Neil Gaiman

pulling an uncooperative goat — Neil Gaiman

Fugues Quotes By Isaac Mizrahi

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work. — Isaac Mizrahi

Fugues Quotes By H.L. Mencken

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius. — H.L. Mencken

Fugues Quotes By Dylan Thomas

What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold, coil, polish, and plane them into patterns, sequences, sculptures, fugues of sound expressing some lyrical impulse, some spiritual doubt or conviction, some dimly realized truth I must try to reach and realize. — Dylan Thomas

Fugues Quotes By Alan Bradley

Although it seems shocking to say so, grief is a funny thing. On the one hand, you're numb, yet on the other, something inside is trying desperately to claw its way back to normal: to pull a funny face, to leap out like a jack-in-the-box, to say Smile, damn you, smile! — Alan Bradley

Fugues Quotes By Kamila Shamsie

My ex calls the ochre winter 'autumn' as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark. - Broken Verses — Kamila Shamsie

Fugues Quotes By Ralph Vaughan Williams

Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues. — Ralph Vaughan Williams

Fugues Quotes By Debasish Mridha

I often want to drink a cup of moonlight so that I may calm my heart and soothe my mind. — Debasish Mridha

Fugues Quotes By Anonymous

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1953), went so far as to say that the limits of our language were, indeed, the limits of our world. — Anonymous

Fugues Quotes By Anthony Burgess

If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft ... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered. — Anthony Burgess

Fugues Quotes By Hermann Hesse

The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph. — Hermann Hesse

Fugues Quotes By Diane Ackerman

The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged mind-theaters full of tragedies and triumphs, because unfortunately, the fear of death does wonders to focus the mind, inspire creativity, and heightens the senses. Trusting one's hunches only seems gamble if one has time for seem; otherwise the brain goes on autopilot and trades the elite craft of analysis for the best rapid insights that float up from its danger files and ancient bag of tricks. — Diane Ackerman

Fugues Quotes By Neal Stephenson

A collection of Bach organ fugues (nerds have a thing about Bach), — Neal Stephenson

Fugues Quotes By Pope John Paul II

A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man ... [he] will never become a 'vegetable' or an 'animal,'" the Pope said. "The intrinsic value and personal dignity of every human being does not change depending on their circumstances. — Pope John Paul II

Fugues Quotes By Aaron Copland

Whatever comes under the heading of fugal form partakes in some way of the nature of a fugue. You already know, I feel sure, that in texture all fugues are polyphonic or contrapuntal (the terms are identical in meaning). Therefore, it follows that all fugal forms are polyphonic or contrapuntal in texture. — Aaron Copland

Fugues Quotes By John Le Carre

The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom; to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy. — John Le Carre

Fugues Quotes By Harper Lee

She was extravagant with her pity, and complacent in her snug world. — Harper Lee

Fugues Quotes By William Penn

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own. — William Penn

Fugues Quotes By Rick Riordan

Indeed," Kym said. "The original palace of my father, Poseidon"
Percy snapped his fingers, which sounded like a muffled explosion. "That's why I recognized it. Dad's new crib in the Atlantic is kind of like this. — Rick Riordan

Fugues Quotes By Alexa Riley

He took one look at me and knew I would be his best friend, his partner, his wife, and the mother of his children. He saw more in me in one glance than I'd seen in myself my whole life. — Alexa Riley