"Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.…" — Thomas Beecham

More Counterpoint Quotes

This quote is filed under Counterpoint Quotes, one of 19 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the… — Mike Figgis
• The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has… — John Jay Chapman
• True love is your souls recognition of its counterpoint in another. — Owen Wilson
• Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm… — Lewis B. Smedes
• From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in… — Lewis H. Lapham
• Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint.… — Pete Seeger
• A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have… — Robert Penn Warren
• I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the… — Karen O
• As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense,… — David Shi
• Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color… — Hans Hofmann
• The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is… — Anish Kapoor
• Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between… — Hans Hofmann

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