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)

    “Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.”
    —Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)