Newsletter, Institute for Studies in American Music, XXI http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/isam/NewsF91.pdf (November 1, 1991).
“Music is not a way to reach god. Music is god.”
“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”
The Apple Cart (1928), Act I
1920s
Source: The Art of the Dance (1928), p. 78.
Context: The harmony of music exists equally with the harmony of movement in nature.
Man has not invented the harmony of music. It is one of the underlying principles of life. Neither could the harmony of movement be invented: it is essential to draw one’s conception of it from Nature herself, and to see the rhythm of human movement from the rhythm of water in motion, from the blowing of the winds on the world, in all the earth’s movements, in the motions of animals, fish, birds, reptiles, and even in primitive man, whose body still moved in harmony with nature….. All the movements of the earth follow the lines of wave motion. Both sound and light travel in waves. The motion of water, winds, trees and plants progresses in waves. The flight of a bird and the movements of all animals follow lines like undulating waves. If then one seeks a point of physical beginning for the movement of the human body, there is a clue in the undulating motion of the wave.
“Music is the beating that puts hearts in harmony.”
Original: (it) La musica è il battito che mette i cuori in armonia.
Source: prevale.net
No. 93 (16 June 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Ground Book
Context: To master the virtue of the long sword is to govern the world and oneself, thus the long sword is the basis of strategy. The principle is "strategy by means of the long sword". If he attains the virtue of the long sword, one man can beat ten men. Just as one man can beat ten, so a hundred men can beat a thousand, and a thousand men can beat ten thousand. In my strategy, one man is the same as ten thousand, so this strategy is the complete warrior's craft.
The Way of the warrior does not include other Ways, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic accomplishments and dancing. But even though these are not part of the Way, if you know the Way broadly you will see it in everything. Men must polish their particular Way.
“We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.”
Source: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
“This man has one dominating idea.. to fill space in a beautiful way.”
Georgia O'Keeffe, The Artists Voice - Talks with Seventeen Artists, New York Harper & Row (1962)
“The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.”
Source: Blue Ocean Strategy, 2005, p. 4 (2016 extended edition)
