Musical Composition Language

Famous quotes containing the words musical, composition and/or language:

    That vast moth-eaten musical brocade
    Created to pretend we never die ...
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    The proposed Constitution ... is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.
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    Which I wish to remark—
    And my language is plain—
    That for ways that are dark
    And for tricks that are vain,
    The heathen Chinee is peculiar:
    Which the same I would rise to explain.
    Bret Harte (1836–1902)