Modern Double Basses

Famous quotes containing the words modern, double and/or basses:

    “No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.”
    —Ellen Glasgow (1874–1945)

    “since I see
    Your double heart,
    Farewell my part!”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “Of a green evening, clear and warm,
    She bathed in her still garden, while
    The red-eyed elders watching, felt

    The basses of their beings throb
    In witching chords, and their thin blood
    Pulse pizzicati of Hosanna.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)