
'Pierre Monteux in his own words', Classic Record Collector, Autumn 2003, Number 34, p. 18
To Michael Parkinson in 1987 on the Parkinson BBC One programme.
'Pierre Monteux in his own words', Classic Record Collector, Autumn 2003, Number 34, p. 18
“When Music, heavenly maid, was young,
While yet in early Greece she sung.”
Source: The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), Line 1.
“The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.”
As quoted in The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary of Amoral Advice (1984) by Jonathon Green
Variant translation: The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 281
“True wisdom is always young, and always near to the grasp of an open mind.”
The Heart of Buddhist Meditation (1965)
Context: Some doubt may arise in the minds of Western men how they could be helped in their present problems by a doctrine of the far and foreign East. And others, even in the East, may ask how words spoken 2,500 years ago can have relevance to our ‘modern world’, except in a very general sense. Those who raise the objection of distance in space (meaning by it, properly, the difference of race), should ask themselves whether Benares is truly more foreign to a citizen of London than Nazareth from where a teaching has issued that to that very citizen has become a familiar and important part of his life and thought. They should further he willing to admit that mathematical laws, found out long ago in distant Greece, are of no less validity today, in Britain or elsewhere. But particularly these objectors should consider the numerous basic facts of life that are common to all humanity. It is about them that the Buddha preeminently speaks. Those who raise the objection of the distance in time, will certainly recall many golden words of long-dead sages and poets which strike such a deep and kindred chord in our own hearts that we very vividly feel a living and intimate contact with those great ones who have left this world long ago. Such experience contrasts with the "very much present" silly chatter of society, newspapers or radio, which, when compared with those ancient voices of wisdom and beauty, will appear to emanate from the mental level of stone-age man tricked out in modern trappings. True wisdom is always young, and always near to the grasp of an open mind.
pp. 20-21
remark made in 1971, cited in Roger Lewis, Anthony Burgess (2002), p. 152
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