"Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth……" — Curt Sachs

"Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training."

— Curt Sachs

24 Quotes by Curt Sachs

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The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.
The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.
The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not…
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.
In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of…
It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance…
Every dance is and gives ecstasy.
The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in…
The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying…
A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.
If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In…
In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always…

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There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
What was it called, that symbol of the serpent eating its own tail? It probably signified infinity, endlessness, timelessness. But… — Patricia Gaffney
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to… — Graham Greene
...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third,… — Herman Melville
To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and… — Alan Bennett
The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld:… — Jonathan Franzen
It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts… — Laini Taylor
His eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light… — Laini Taylor
There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness… — J M Coetzee

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"Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth……" — Curt Sachs

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