"The Harp", in The White Pony: An Anthology Of Chinese Poetry (1949), ed. Robert Payne, p. 220
“Music expresses the motion of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.”
Claude Debussy (1862–1918) French composer
As quoted in The Twentieth Century (1972) by Caroline Farrar Ware, p. 222
Variant translation: Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
“Strange that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long!”
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Hymn 19, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II.
Attributed from postum publications, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)
Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 40, The Rat Who Wound the Clock
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(27th September 1823) Extracts from my Pocket Book. Song
The London Literary Gazette, 1823
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Interview with Tony Schwartz in Playboy (February 1984) p. 166
Context: I write from instinct, from inexplicable sparkle. I don't know why I'm writing what I'm writing. Usually, I sit and I let my hands wander on my guitar. And I sing anything. I play anything. And I wait till I come across a pleasing accident. Then I start to develop it. Once you take a piece of musical information, there are certain implications that it automatically contains — the implication of that phrase elongated, contracted, or inverted or in another time signature. So you start with an impulse and go to what your ear likes.
“When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.”
Sarah Vaughan (1924–1990) American jazz singer
Interview, The New York Times, 1988
Kamala Harris (1964) United States Senator from California
26 July 2022 per Katelyn Carelle https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11051105/Kamala-Harris-pronouns-woman-sitting-table-wearing-blue-suit.html <br class="br">2022, July 2022
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (1954) Current President of Egypt
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as reported by Anadolu Agency on 3 June 2015 http://aa.com.tr/en/politics/erdogan-did-not-attend-un-dinner-to-avoid-egypts-sisi/40683 <br class="br">About
