“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

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Benjamin Britten1

English composer, conductor, and pianist 1913–1976

Gillian Rubinstein Tales of the Otori

Source: Across the Nightingale Floor

“Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best…”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

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"Joe's Garage Acts II & III" (1979)
Variant: Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.

“True beauty lies in lap of the nature. When you see mysterious view of the nature, you find the real hidden beauty of the nature. Then you get to know about beauty everything better.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan