Deception Quote by Virgil Thomson Download Open image “Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.” — Virgil Thomson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deception Life May Music Musical life Stores
Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses. — Confucius Copy Share Image
You can't fool music, first of all. Music will expose you as to the depth of who you really are or who you really… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
Don't die with your music still in you. Don't die with your purpose unfulfilled. Don't die feeling as if your life has been wrong.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
I let her alone and when she got that finished she left me alone. We trusted each other. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Satan wants you to believe that you don't have a choice in the matter. You can't be happy until things go the way that… — Lindsey Rietzsch Copy Share Image
No-deal Brexit could be Boris Johnson's biggest deception yet - worse than the Boris bus or the lies that had him sacked as a… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
The public should begin to understand that there's nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe.… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no,… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
Jack and Jill ran up the hill, both for a little fun. Jack's plan was deception while Jill sought affection. And Jack wouldn't quit… — Laurie Faria Stolarz Copy Share Image
People with psychopathy are very good at reading the minds of their victims. That's probably most clearly seen in deception. — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the… — John Wanamaker Copy Share Image
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image