Ancient Egyptian Music

Famous quotes containing the words ancient, egyptian and/or music:

    With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
    Bible: Hebrew Job 12:12.

    What was I saying? An Egyptian king
    Once touched long fingers, which are not anything.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    While the music is performed, the cameras linger savagely over the faces of the audience. What a bottomless chasm of vacuity they reveal! Those who flock round the Beatles, who scream themselves into hysteria, whose vacant faces flicker over the TV screen, are the least fortunate of their generation, the dull, the idle, the failures . . .
    Paul Johnson (b. 1928)