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)

    “Every thing in his composition was little; and he had all the weaknesses of a little mind, without any of the virtues, or even the vices, of a great one.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “And what the dead had no speech for, when living,
    They can tell you, being dead: the communication
    Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)