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Portal:Classical music/Quotes/14 Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Musical comedian Martin Mull (pictured in 1976) is thought to have originated the quote, although an earlier variation of the line from the early 20th-century has been documented. "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" is a maxim used to express the futility of translating music through words. [1]
Not at once; but woman is the mothering element in the world and her vote will go toward helping forward the time when life's Bread, which is home, shelter and security, and the Roses of life, music, education, nature and books, shall be the heritage of every child that is born in the country, in the government of which she has a voice.
Strauss used many quotes from his own works in his symphonic poem A Hero's Life; Strauss quoted Luigi Denza's song Funiculì, Funiculà in his symphonic poem Aus Italien, believing it was a folk song; Igor Stravinsky quoted a theme from Franz Schubert's Marche Militaire No. 1 in D in his Circus Polka.
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The Day the Music Died; Deutschland über alles; Die Meister. Die Besten. Les grandes équipes. The champions! Don't Believe the Hype; Don't call it a comeback; Don't Eat the Yellow Snow; Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone; La donna è mobile; Doo-be-doo-be-doo; The dreams in which I'm dying are the ...
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Nietzsche considers that historically, as cultures have developed, music is the last art form to appear — music appears as its culture has begun to fade. "All true, all original music is a swan song." He suggests that the music of his time, "has but a short life span ahead of it", for it arose from a culture that will soon sink and disappear.