Conversations (January 1804)
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël book Corinne
La vue d'un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixée, qui vous attend pour vous faire du bien quand vous vous en approchez.
Bk. 4, ch. 3
The idea that "architecture is frozen music" — an aphorism of disputed origin sometimes misattributed to de Staël — is found in a number of German writers of the period.
Corinne (1807)
Steve Turner (1949) British writer
Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 143
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer
Letter to Camille Pleyel.
Context: My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos... in this respect this is a savage country.
“Those who dance appear insane to those who cannot hear the music.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Misattributed
First recorded appearance: Germaine de Staël's On Germany (1813). ". . . sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests as we should at a ball, where we did not hear the music; the dancing that we saw there would appear insane." There are several other pre-Nietzsche examples, indicating that the phrase was widespread in the nineteenth-century; it was referred to in 1927 as an "old proverb".
“It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.”
Edward Gorey (1925–2000) American writer, artist, and illustrator
“In heaven, no one can hear you dream.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
and only the bouncers and bartenders would see you. I'm used to it. I'm that tree that falls in the forest. <br class="br"> Clip for Studio4a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6SuvanvZFY&feature=related at youtube.com
