Quote by Ezra Pound
Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies w

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound

Other quotes by Ezra Pound

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. – Ezra Pound

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Heresy
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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. – Ezra Pound

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Men
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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. – Paul Simon

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The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. Its more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero. – Carlos Santana

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Music

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. – Lily Tomlin

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Music

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him pop. Dont tell him rocknroll or they wont even let you in the hotel. – Buddy Holly

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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. – Joseph Addison

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Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. – Marilyn Penland

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Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. – Norman Cousins

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I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And its not so much divine retribution as its built into the law of nature. – Pat Robertson

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