Fugue Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
— James Hilton
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One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends, in…
— Marya Hornbacher
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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and…
— Edna O'Brien
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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo,…
— Dmitri Shostakovich
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The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when…
— Freeman Dyson
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What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity…
— Ian Hornak
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It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
— Helen Hayes
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There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I…
— Edward Weston
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It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility.
— David Foster Wallace
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I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of…
— Karen DeCrow
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The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
— Michael Tippett
Who Wrote These Fugue Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Fugue Quotes as follows: