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 ...”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seems as absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.”
    —Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)

    “the communication
    Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)