"Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import."

-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Music Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“I have to just go in and audition, like everyone else, and fight my way to the top.”
“They say I have the ugliest feet in the world. I don't care if they say it - I'm not gonna hide 'em!”
“The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.”
“It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.”
“Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.”

Source : Thomas Clarkson (1788). “An essay on the slavery”, p.60
“When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.”
“If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is speech." In the darkness of tyranny, this is the key to the sunlight. If it is granted, all doors open. If it is withheld, none.”
“Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura crossed the doorstep, she could see some of these. But mere seeing from a distance did not satisfy her; she longed to go alone far into the fields and hear the birds singing, the brooks tinkling, and the wind rustling through the corn, as she had when a child. To smell things and touch things, warm earth and flowers and grasses, and to stand and gaze where no one could see her, drinking it all in.”

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