c. 1960
Source: 1960 - 1968, Dialogues – conversations with.., quotes, c. 1960, pp. 154-155
“Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.”
Bk. III http://books.google.com/books?id=8nI5AAAAcAAJ&q=%22Not+only+was+Thebes+built+by+the+music+of+an+Orpheus+but+without+the+music+of+some+inspired+Orpheus+was+no+city+ever+built+no+work+that+man+glories+in+ever+done%22&pg=PA182#v=onepage, ch. 8 http://books.google.com/books?id=m2IyAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Not+only+was+Thebes+built+by+the+music+of+an+Orpheus+but+without+the+music+of+some+inspired+Orpheus+was+no+city+ever+built+no+work+that+man+glories+in+ever+done%22&pg=PA86#v=onepage.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)
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Tiësto.
Source: [WE8 Coca-Cola Campaign, http://www.coca-cola.com/template1/index.jsp?locale=en_US&site=../we8/we8.jsp, Coca Cola, 2008-08-02]
“There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.”
Source: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012), Chapter 31 “Epilogue” (p. 288)
“The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.”
On his Tall Tree And The Eye bubbled towards the heavens in the courtyard of The Royal Academy of Arts in London. Quoted in "Anish Kapoor Opens the Door:Modern Artist Creates Monuments that Transcend Space & Time."
“It was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that built the cities.”
Divina Natura dedit agros, ars humana ædificavit urbes.
Marcus Porcius Cato on Agriculture : Marcus Terentius Varro on Agriculture. W.D. Hooper & H.B. Ash. (translation). Harvard University Press, 1993. Bk. 3, ch. 1
De Re Rustica
“Glory, built
On selfish principles, is shame and guilt.”
Source: Table Talk (1782), Line 1.
1984
Context: On albums and commercialism: "For every album I’ve ever made, I’ve written many times more music than has actually been released, and the way I choose which music appears is almost totally random, but one thing I have never done is to make music for the sake of commercialism... I don’t think it’s possible to guarantee commercial success for an album anyway, because nobody really knows what is commercial and what isn’t. Even if I went out of my way to make an album that was more accessible to the public, that would not guarantee its commercial success".
Source: The Frontiers of Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on Music (1994), Ch. 2 : How to Become Immortal