"Music is the melody whose text is the…" — Arthur Schopenhauer
"Music is the melody whose text is the world."
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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458 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer has 458 quotes on this site.
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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise,…
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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her…
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their…
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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a…
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of…
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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine…
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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the…
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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways…
— Bjork
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I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8,…
— Bono
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It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal…
— Bono
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There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always…
— David Bowie
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Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female…
— Brandon Boyd
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven…
— Johannes Brahms
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We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of…
— Johannes Brahms
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All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.
— Carter Burwell
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears.…
— Albert Camus
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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
— Pablo Casals
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Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
— Tracy Chapman
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