Common Quote by Gerard Manley Hopkins

“By contrast, the three other features—conjunct melodic motion, limited macroharmony, and centricity—are common to virtually all human music. This near universality may be attributable,…

— Dmitri Tymoczko

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are pieces that…

— Paul Lansky

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that…

— Leo Ornstein

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

— Joe Hill

There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.

— Satchel Paige

“We say: he has no talent, only tone. But tone is precisely what cannot be invented—we’re born with it. Tone is an inherited grace,…

— Emil Cioran

I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources…

— Leonard Bernstein

The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While…

— Thomas Berry

We feel like we're building something aesthetically, so we like the idea of the evolution. So far, each piece of music or everything has…

— Thomas Bangalter