Honoré de Balzac: Tone is light in another shape. In music, instruments perform the functions of the colours employed in painting.

Tone is light in another shape. In music, instruments perform the functions of t — Honoré de Balzac

Tone is light in another shape. In music, instruments perform the functions of the colours employed in painting.

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L'homme est imparfait. Il est parfois plus ou moins hypocrite, et les niais dise — Honoré de Balzac
Mais la raison est toujours mesquine auprès du sentiment ; l'une est naturelleme — Honoré de Balzac
Il y a une manière de dire ce mot rien entre amants, qui signifie tout le contra — Honoré de Balzac
Les moeurs sont l'hypocrisie des nations. — Honoré de Balzac
Some people have lives; some people have music. — John Green
Composers are not human; They can live on diminished sevenths, and be contented — George Bernard Shaw
The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed. — Albert Einstein
La musique...est la vapeur de l’art. Elle est à la poésie ce que la rêverie est — Victor Hugo
Free thinker. Thinker would suffice. — Jules Renard
Nur Thaten geben dem Leben Stärke, nur Maas ihm Reiz. Only deeds give strength t — Jean Paul Richter
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such a — Robert Burns
The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it — Swami Vivekananda