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A figure spun on stirring of the air,
And so, untrue. More
... the ... radio station played a Chopin polonaise. On all the following days news bulletins... More
... The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of... More
... though we are nothing on this earth, I can tell you one thing: as beautiful as all sounds... More
a bolder note than this might swell
From my lyre within the sky. More
A cry of bitter dead men who will never
Attend a gentle maker of musical joy. More
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid.
And on... More
A famous conductor from Rio
Fell in love with a lady called Cleo.
As she took down her... More
A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because... More
A man in all the world’s new fashion planted,
That hath a mint of phrases in his... More
A piper in the streets to-day
Set up, and tuned, and started to play, More
A pretty air in an opera is prettier there than it could be anywhere else, I suppose, just as an... More
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. More
A woman’s two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business. More
A young woman, pretty, lively, with a harp as elegant as herself; and both placed near a window,... More
A ‘spasm band’ is a miscellaneous collection of a soap box, tin cans, pan tops, nails,... More
Alas! all music jars when the soul’s out of tune. More
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. More
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects... More
Alonso. What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!
Gonzalo. Marvelous sweet music! More
Already determined dawn began to lay
In place across a cloud the slender ray
For prying... More
Always and last, before the final ring
When all the fireworks blare, begins
A tom-tom... More
Amy: I love good heavy metal.
Zack: That’s impossible. That’s like saying I love good... More
An admirable musician! O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear! More
An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.... More
And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart. More
And in counterpoint, from other windows,
the effort to be merry—ay, maracas!
Msibilant,... More
And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons. More
And then he would lift this finest
of furniture to his big left shoulder
and tuck it in... More
And this shall be for music when no one else is near,
The fine song for singing, the rare... More
and wove seven strings,
Sweet with all music, out of his long hair,
Because her hands had... More
Architecture is a chained and fettered art. Far from being “frozen music,” it is an art... More
As if the musicians did not so much play the little phrase as execute the rites required by it to... More
As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic... More
As the artist
extends his world with
one gratuitous flourish—a stroke of white or
a... More
At first, he savored only the material quality of the sounds secreted by the instruments. And it... More
At La Scala it is customary to take no more than twenty minutes for those little visits one pays... More
At the Denver House, a hastily erected log structure roofed and partitioned with canvas,... More
At the piano, scales, arpeggios
And chords, the morning exercises,
The afternoon’s... More
Bach—Genesis, I, I. More
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt... More
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav’n’s joy,
Sphear-born harmonious Sisters, Voice, and... More
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom,”
A roaring, epic, ragtime tune
From the mouth of the... More
But listen, up the road, something gulps, the church spire
Opens its eight bells out,... More
Chad and I always look for deeper meanings; we can analyze Beastie Boys lyrics for hours. More
Chance: That tune, they been playin’ it all day. What is it?
Dude: Oh, it’s some Mexican... More
Chopin—Two embalmers at work upon a minor poet ... the scent of tuberoses ... Autumn rain. More
Classic music is th’ kind that we keep thinkin’ll turn into a tune. More
Conductor: What do you know about music?
Eddie: Nothing I only wrote it, that’s... More
D--n me, stranger, ef you can’t stay as long as you please, and I’ll give you plenty to eat... More
Debussy—A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one. More
Did you ever do it to Ravel’s Bolero? More
Didn’t spill a drop. The shakes are gone just because of a piece of music. Until they played... More
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. More
Down the road someone is practicing scales,
The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink... More
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
I heard a... More
Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool
winding saxophones. Go to it,... More
During the cattle drives, Texas cowboy music came into national significance. Its practical... More
Emperor Joseph II: Your work is ingenious. It’s quality work, and there are simply too many... More
Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round. More
Even an extraordinary policeman seems a strange suitor for an operatic soprano. Does he sing? More
Every actor and musician has a text upon which to base his art, but he can treat the text in one... More
Every Morne from hence,
A brisk Cherub something sips,
Whose sacred influence
Adds... More
For do but note a wild and wanton herd
Or race of youthful and unhandled colts
Fetching... More
For government, though high, and low, and lower,
Put into parts, doth keep in one... More
For sounds in winter nights, and often in winter days, I heard the forlorn but melodious note of... More
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since... More
For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The... More
For the musician, before he has begun his work, all is in readiness so that the operation of his... More
Fountains and ye, that warble, as ye flow,
Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his... More
From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony
This universal Frame began:
From Harmony to... More
Gee, boy, when you sing, I can close my ears
And hear tom-toms just as plain.
Listen to... More
Give me some music; music, moody food
Of us that trade in love. More
Give me the keys. I feel for the common chord again,
Sliding by semi-tones till I sink to a... More
Good music is very close to primitive language. More
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty.... More
Grinder, who serenely grindest
At my door the Hundredth Psalm, More
Hans Castorp loved music from his heart; it worked upon him much the same way as did his... More
He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. More
He is blowing on light
each time for the first time.
His fingers cover the mouths of all... More
He would diligently play
On the Zoetrope all day,
And blow the gay Pantechnicon all night. More
Hear the sledges with the bells—
Silver bells! More
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play... More
Hearing often-times
The still, sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of... More
Heaven has a Sea of Glass on which angels go sliding every afternoon. There are many golden... More
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. More
Hetty [Burney’s sister] set down to the harpsichord and sung ... we departed this life of... More
Hey you! I told you to slow that nag down! On account of you I almost heard the opera! More
He’s made a harp of her breast-bane,
Whose sound wad melt a heart of stane.

He’s... More
His role was as the gentle teacher, the logical, compassionate, caring and articulate teacher,... More
Hortensio. Madam, my instrument’s in tune.
Bianca. Let’s hear. O fie, the treble... More
How are we to know that a Dracula is a key-pounding pianist who lifts his hands up to his face,... More
How have you left the ancient love
That bards of old enjoyed in you!
The languid strings... More
How irksome is this music to my heart!
When such strings jar, what hope of harmony? More
How little it takes to make us happy! The sound of a bagpipe.—Without music life would be a... More
How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night,
Like softest music to attending ears! More
How sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
So is it in the music... More
How still the evening is,
As hushed on purpose to grace harmony! More
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of... More
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the... More

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