Ear Piercing Instruments

Famous quotes containing the words ear, piercing and/or instruments:

    “Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.”
    —Thomas Beecham (1879–1961)

    “O falling fire and piercing cry
    and panic, and a weak mailed fist
    clenched ignorant against the sky!”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “Sound all the lofty instruments of war,
    And by that music let us all embrace,
    For, heaven to earth, some of us never shall
    A second time do such a courtesy.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)