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Notable Facts & Quotes about
the Arts
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"I would much rather have written
the best song of a nation than its noblest epic."
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
"I would teach children
music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly
music, for in the patterns of music and all the arts are the keys of
learning"
Plato
"Music can name the unnameable
and communicate the unknowable."
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
"Melody is the golden thread running
through the maze of tones by which the ear is guided and the heart
reached."
Anonymous
"Sweeter is your singing to the
ear than honey to the lip."
Theocritus (270 BC)
"Music, of all the arts, stands
in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without
meaning except its own, a meaning in musical terms, not in terms of
words."
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
"It is only that which cannot
be expressed otherwise that is worth expressing in music."
John Dewey (1859-1952)
"Two people can sing together,
but not speak together."
German Proverb
"It is a great tragedy that
no one can ever hear
all of the great musical works that exist,
but it is a greater fortune
that no one can ever hear
all of the great musical works that exist."
Joseph Anthony Stella II
April 18, 1997
"My goal as an educator is to help my students learn about the beauty and power of music. I want them to learn that music is unlike any other thing in the world and has the power to move people in ways words and actions cannot. I hope to give my students not only the tools they need to excel in music, but what they need to excel in life."
Gregory T. Dalakian
"This will be our reply to
violence:
to make music more intensely, more beautifully,
more devotedly than ever before."
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
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