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February 23, 2009 at 10:12 PM
"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. "
Beethoven
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
Beethoven
"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
Jean-Jaques Rousseau
“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess”
Isaac Newton
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life"
Charles Darwin
Posted on February 24, 2009 at 8:01 AM
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." Henry David Thoreau
"Without music. life would be a mistake." Nietzsche
"If music be the food of love, play on." William Shakespeare
"The aim and final end of music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul." J.S. Bach
Posted on February 24, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Thanks , Pauline. How true.
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