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The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt. ↗

— Sergei Rachmaninoff

#rachmaninoff #rachmaninov #music

Popular music is a microcosm of the culture, Eliza. It reflects the mentality of the population. ↗

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

#tiffanie-debartolo #music

That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight ↗

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

#tiffanie-debartolo #music

[Hades] returned his attention to the playlist while I eased the car back on the road. His fingers flipped deftly over the screen. 'Orpheus...Dusk...Orpheus...Dusk...do you have anything on here that doesn't make people want to jump off a cliff?' ... 'I'm driving. When you learn to drive something more modern than a horse and buggy, we can listen to your music.' 'I can drive!' 'Did they even have cars the last time you can to the surface?' I teased. 'Yes.' 'Not counting the minute and a half you spent rescuing me last year?' Hades fell silent, and I laughed. 'I didn't think so. ↗

— Kaitlin Bevis

#dusk #humor #jumping-off-cliffs #mythology #orpheus

When all that you've tried, leaves nothing but holes inside. ↗

— Joe Brooks

#futile #holes #holes-inside #lyrics #music

Well, God knows you're barely standing but you've got to carry this heavy load. ↗

— Joe Brooks

#life #lyrics #music #these-broken-hands-of-mind #music

We're all weird. ↗

— John O'Callaghan

#music #musician #the-maine #unique #weird

Xander: I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away. ↗

— Dana Reston

#danger #fear #human-nature #humour #nature

The relationship between a perfect cup of coffee and a writer is just like the couple who always standby and feel proud of being committed to each other. ↗

— Himmilicious

#writers #relationship

She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to... She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her reputation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved. ↗

— Jane Austen

#characteristics #description #effort #motivation #talent