Musical Conventions

Famous quotes containing the words musical and/or conventions:

“There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man’s canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader’s boat.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)