Opening Bars Quotes
- I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental… — Thomas Eakins
- Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert… — George Steiner
- While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together… — Milan Kundera