Music of Israel/popular Genres

Famous quotes containing the words music of, music, israel and/or popular:

    “Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man’s morning work in this world?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    “We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)