Saturday, December 6, 2014

Quoteables from Notables

A few quotes on the subject of music.
The first and third are my favorites of all music quotes I've yet read.


"I know that twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm 
offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust."
- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)


"The infinite sinuousness, nuance, and complexity of music enable it to 
speak in a thousand different accents to a thousand different listeners, 
and to say with non-committal and moving intimacy what no language would acknowledge or express 
and what no situations in life could completely exhaust or make possible."
- Irwin Edman


"Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to remain silent."
- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

13 comments:

Christian said...

sounds neat, well, time for me to go, beats me why though...


(all three puns intended)

Zoë said...

hee hee ;]

Christian said...

the message title for this is not half-bad you know, how about sayings from the decayings

Zoë said...

Conner and I a cracking up right now... ;D

Zoë said...

a = are
my keyboard = annoying

Christian said...

Or you could name this message: "What the Dead Said"

Zoë said...

Nathanael = hilarious!

The Quinn Family said...

okay, I am actually sitting here laughing out loud at these comments! "sayings from the decayings" is really morbid, but hilarious.

Christian said...

Note: this is not a musical quote, it sounds like one, but it is not on one accord though.

Christian said...

yes, there are three music puns in that comment above...

Zoë said...

Well played!

Christian said...

that was to horny...

Zoë said...

"Horny" - a word which here means "brilliant"?