"Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life."

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Source : "Feeling and Form". Book by Susanne Katherina Langer, ch. 1, p. 27, 1953.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#Music Is Quotes

“There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing.”
“So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.”
“Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.”
“Effective results come from knowing what's in it for them. What's your community there for and how you can nurture it?”
“True followers of Christ emulate Christâ€”true followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.”
“You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.”
“You know what freaks me out? Having your personal life live-tweeted so that everyone can make fun of you forever.”
“We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.”

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