It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
“Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up” — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know… — Sybil Thorndike Copy Share Image
And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors as Bach has done in music. — Frantisek Kupka Copy Share Image
Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold,… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina.… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
My first book published in France was translated and titled Exercices d'Attente in 1972. It was a collection of short works written… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
“Amnesia, which is a loss of memory, is a symptom of many different trauma and/or dissociative disorders, including PTSD, Dissociative Fugue, Dissociative… — Ruth A. Lanius Copy Share Image
Vain Art of the Fugue was the only one of my novels to be met with relative public recognition: it was nominated… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“Who am I?’ you mean.” He smiled at the question and gave what was at first glance a most oblique answer. “Do… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
“Identity confusion... is as if somebody lost their mental road map and has no appreciation of who they are or what is… — Richard A. Chefetz Copy Share Image
“In this chapter I restrict myself to exploring the nature of the amnesia which is reported between personality states in most people… — John Morton Copy Share Image
Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and… — Ian Hornak Copy Share Image
Listen to the triple fugue in 'Magnificat' - the first subject is seven voices, the second one has 52 different voices, the… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
