Adagio Quotes

• People who have never had a broken heart will never understand dead roses, Tolstoy, airport lounges, Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, neat brandy, the moon and drizzle.

  Wendy Harmer

  Heart, Moon, Airports

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• It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

  Dean Koontz

  Soul, Opinion, Speak

  Dean Koontz (2013). “Innocence (with bonus short story Wilderness): A Novel”, p.171, Bantam

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• By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency.

  Steven Galloway

  Numbers, Lasts, Currency

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• Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Moving, Wave, Source

  "Electromagnetic Theory, Volume III". Book by Oliver Heaviside, Pub. Co London, p. 1; "The Electrician", 1912.

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• The serious is the most difficult branch of dancing, it requires a close study, and cannot be duly appreciated but by connoisseurs and men of a refined and pure taste. She who excels in it deserves the highest applause. A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; I look on it as the touchstone of the dancer.

  Carlo Blasis

  Dance, Art, Dancing

  "The Theory of Theatrical Dancing: With a Chapter on Pantomime".

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• my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Heart, Rocks, Hands

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• An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there, under the clouds, a Hawaiian string quartet, lounge, concessions and, a thousand feet below, New York-a garden of golden lights winking on and off, automobiles, trucks winding in and out, and not a sound. All as silent as a dead city-and it looks adagio down there.

  Dawn Powell

  New York, Garden, Cities

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond.

  Andrew Schneider

  Thinking, Symphony, Silence

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