Festivity Quote by Evelyn Waugh

“I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the whole thing. I missed it bitterly.…

— Mitch Albom

“We were dancers and drummers and standers and jugglers, and there was nothing anyone needed to accept or tolerate. We celebrated.”

— Bill Konigsberg

“Life is but a short and fevered rehearsal for a concert we cannot stay to give.”

— stephen christian

“Life is but a fevered rehearsal for a concert we cannot stay to give.”

— Stephen Christian

“And oh, heaven - the crowded playhouse, the stench of perfume upon heated bodies, the silly laughter and the clatter, the party in the…

— Daphne du Maurier

“This was why Singers clung to tradition. To Laws. Surprises conflicted too much with duty. Sellis”

— Fran Wilde

“Celebration toward the east fosters silence. Indeed, there is less temptation for the celebrant to monopolize the conversation. Facing the Lord, he is less…

— Robert Sarah

“He and his boys up there were keeping it new, at the risk of ruin, destruction, madness, and death, in order to find new…

— James Baldwin

“I often heard this melodious hymn again in days of hardship, and it always affected me painfully. Not as the reproachful warning clang of…

— Sven Anders Hedin

“It was a kind of sado-masochism. I would take the things that were painful to me and elevate them and, through the mantra of…

— Michael Gira

“When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and…

— Hermann Hesse

“Life was hard sometimes, but maybe God gave us music as his apology.”

— Brittainy C. Cherry