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“There is not in history a more splendid and inspiring example of self-control, of self-sacrifice, of courage and of manliness.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 193

“The arrival of Wallace Hartley’s body became a focal point of national grief. This young man not only represented all who had died on the Titanic, but also the values that the British feared were in decline.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p.162

“The band played marching from deck to deck, and as the ship went under I could still hear the music.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 11

“For those out on the water it provided a bizarre soundtrack to a sight that so many would only be able to describe as “like watching a moving picture.””

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 194

“They were brave and splendid, all the men. They died like brave men.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 151

“In the whole history of the sea, there is little to equal the wonderful behavior of these humble players.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 11

Steve Turner Quotes about music

“I could hear the band playing a cheery sort of music. I don’t like jazz music as a rule, but I was glad to hear it that night. I think it helped us all.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 143

“The notes of this music were the last thing I heard before I went off the poop and felt myself going headlong into the icy water with the engines and machinery buzzing in my ears.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), pp. 151-152

“Wallace Hartley: “I’ve always felt that, when men are called to face death suddenly, music is are more effective in cheering them on than all the firearms in creation.””

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 194

“When everything on the ship was being turned upside down, the music remained the same. In the midst of mind-jarring abnormality, it was the one thing that retained its familiarity.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 194

“[Bandleader Hartley] apparently believed that music could be more powerful that physical force in bringing order to chaos.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 141

Steve Turner Quotes about water

“As the screams in the water multiplied, another sound was heard, strong and clear at first, then fainter in the distance. It was the melody of the hymn “Nearer, My God, To Thee,” played by the string orchestra in the dining saloon.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 10

“The final dive of the ship, as the bow lay submerged and the stern rose out of the water, was truly horrendous for all who witnessed it.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), pp. 153-154

“Despite the awfulness of what was happening, the backdrop was a scene of beauty: a clear sky, a bright moon, clearly visible stars, flat undisturbed water, and an immense liner blazing with pinholes of light.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 142

“The ship’s orchestra of eight young men were standing knee deep in water playing.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 140

Steve Turner Quotes

“This object of great beauty—even in its stricken condition—went down with a terrifying roar…a sound that survivors later described as the most bloodcurdling they had ever heard.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 154

Beauty

“The story of their gallantry came to epitomize a spirit of courage, duty and self-sacrifice.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 13

Courage

“In the last moments of the great ship’s doom, when all was plainly lost, when braver and hardier men might almost have been excused for doing practically anything to save themselves, they stood responsive to their conductor’s baton and played a recessional tune.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 11

Men

“The musicians had played on the deck as the ship went down. They had forfeited their lives for the sake of others. They had played the tunes of hymns to induce a spirit of peace and calm. They were heroic.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 13

Peace

“Shipwreck was an ever-present possibility in 1912.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 129

“It was 11:45 at night according to ship’s time when the Titanic grazed along the iceberg that would send it to the ocean bed.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 137

Time , Night

“They kept it up until the very end. Only the engulfing ocean had power to drown them into silence.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 152

Silence

“The image of the lighted ship sliding under the waves, while the band carried on regardless, captured the public’s imagination.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 7

Imagination , Light

“It wasn’t hard for people to see the Titanic as a metaphor for Western civilization’s obsessions with speed, wealth, and conquest at the expense of contemplation, sharing and the well-being of one’s neighbor.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), pp. 188-189

People , Speed , Wealth

“I shall never forget the sight of that beautiful boat as she went down, the orchestra playing to the last, the lights burning until they were extinguished by the waves. It sounds so unreal, like a scene on the stage.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 152

Beauty , Light , Forgetting

““If any glory at all attaches to the awful tragedy of the sea about which the world is still talking, it circles round the heads of these heroic bandsmen who played the mighty vessel to its doom”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 173

World , Sea

“No praise could be sufficient for those courageous musicians whom we left behind. They were heroes to a man.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 153

Courage

“By the twentieth of April, the story was widely accepted and was viewed as one of the most heartening acts of bravery in the whole tragedy.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 10

“Not only had they behaved dutifully and without apparent concern for their own safety, but they also offered the hope that not all of the younger male generation were venial, lazy, proud, irreligious, inconsiderate, self-indulgent, weak-willed, and timorous.”

Steve Turner

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 193

Hope

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