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 composition of a tragedy requires testicles.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
    Elias Canetti (b. 1905)