Ascending Melodic Minor

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

“To do good is like ascending a mountain; to do evil as easy as following an avalanche.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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)