“Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.”
G. H. Hardy book A Mathematician's Apology
A Mathematician's Apology (1941)
“Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.”
citation needed
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music." by John Betjeman?
John Betjeman30
English poet, writer and broadcaster 1906–1984Related quotes
Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842–1901) Indian scholar, social reformer and author
His comment to his wife On his daily prayers he would sings devotional songs out of tune and metre. Quoted in page=104
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
"The Rest is Silence"
Source: Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)
“Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own?”
Joseph Jacobs book English Fairy Tales
English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales
“And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears, And music more melodious than the spheres.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Charles Rosen (1927–2012) American pianist and writer on music
Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 7 : Chopin: From the Miniature Genre to the Sublime Style
Pete Seeger (1919–2014) American folk singer
Pop Chronicles, Show 1 - Play A Simple Melody: Pete Seeger on the origins of pop music http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19745/m1/, interview recorded 2.14.1968 http://web.archive.org/web/20110615153027/http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/o-s.
“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.”
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) English churchman and historian
The History of the Worthies of England (1662): Musicians.
“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
Variant: All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
Steve Turner (1949) British writer
Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 13