Catch Phrases
“Their heavenly harps a lower strain began, and in soft music mourn the fall of man.”
“Soft is the music that would charm forever;
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
Not Love, not War.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
“Should the music in the churches not at the most be for the heart? Are fugues made for that?”
Soll die Musik in den Kirchen nicht am meisten fürs Herz seyn? Taugen darzu Fugen?
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Etwas von und über Musik fürs Jahr 1777
“Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.”
"Some Questions and Some Answers" (1958), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 298.
"Foreword", p. 3.
Source: Strong Opinions (1973)
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Reported in Jay Babcock, " JOSHUA HOMME: People say [record] labels are evil. No, they’re just lame. http://www.arthurmag.com/2007/12/04/josh-homme-people-say-labels-are-evil-no-theyre-just-lame/", Arthur Magazine (December 4, 2007).
Canto I, Stanza 6; this can be compared to: "The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love", Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy I. 3, line 16; also: "Oh, could you view the melody / Of every grace / And music of her face", Richard Lovelace, Orpheus to Beasts; "There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument", Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Part ii, Section ix.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
His reply to the hardliner Shia mullas who wanted to ban music.
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