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Quote by Denis Diderot
Good music is very close to primitive language. - Denis Diderot

Good music is very close to primitive language. – Denis Diderot

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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. – Denis Diderot

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Denis Diderot
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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. – Denis Diderot

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Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. – Bryan Ferry

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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. – Richard M. Nixon

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There is nothing stable in the world uproars your only music. – John Keats

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If this word “music” is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. – John Cage

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I often begin movies with music in my head its a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I dont like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures. – Mira Nair

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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. – Miguel de Cervantes

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I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each mornings letters. – Geoffrey Fisher

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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. – Thomas Hobbes

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