Instrumental Composition Written

Famous quotes containing the words instrumental, composition and/or written:

    America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
    James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

    Since body and soul are radically different from one another and belong to different worlds, the destruction of the body cannot mean the destruction of the soul, any more than a musical composition can be destroyed when the instrument is destroyed.
    —Oscar Cullman. Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead? The Witness of the New Testament, ch. 1, Epworth Press (1958)

    I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
    John Ruskin (1819–1900)