#hear

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#endure #feet #hear #instead #jazz

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#conditions #hears #only #prevailing #production

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#conscience #consumes #creeping #does #eats

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. ↗

— Robert South

#heart #loquacity #modesty #storms #takes

Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

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If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#am #another #any #before #begin

Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries. ↗

— Baldwin Spencer

#ago #around #blow #centuries #freedom

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps. ↗

— Jeremy Spencer

#give #give me #gives #goosebumps #heart

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#enough #few #great #great minds #hearts