Rebecca West Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

  Rebecca West

  Music, Quiet, Certain

  Rebecca West (2012). “The Saga of the Century: The Fountain Overflows, This Real Night, and Cousin Rosamund”, p.554, Open Road Media

• music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

  Rebecca West

  Music, Effort, Heaven

• Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

  Rebecca West

  Music, Journey, Air

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.292, Open Road Media

• Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

  Rebecca West

  Music, Tragedy, Sound

  Rebecca West (2010). “Family Memories: An Autobiographical Journey”, p.171, Open Road Media

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