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Music Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Life without music would be an intolerable insult.
- Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many…
- Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
- How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great…
- Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.
- The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.
- Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the…
- Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
- I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as…
- Wilderness. The word itself is music.
- The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all…
- To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central…
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