Ascending Melodic Minor

Famous quotes containing the words ascending, melodic and/or minor:

“It is the most enduring quality, and the most ascending quality.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Whose starward eye
Saw chariot “swing low”? And who was he
That breathed that comforting, melodic sigh,
“Nobody knows de trouble I see”?”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)

“For a country to have a great writer ... is like having another government. That’s why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)