Quote by Ezra Pound
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance...

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound

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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic — I mean my motion. – Ezra Pound

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – Ezra Pound

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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. – Ezra Pound

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Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life. – Ludwig van Beethoven

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I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised. – Sting

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I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers. – Jam Master Jay

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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

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