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. – Ezra Pound

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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. – Ezra Pound

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. – 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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It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer. – Shanna LaFleur

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In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength. – Martha Graham

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The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. – Agnes de Mille

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I would like to dance. Not professionally, just when everyone else does. – Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot, 1997

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If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. – Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916

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You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others. – Steve Lacy

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