Top 32 Fugue In D Quotes
#1. I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.
Sybil Thorndike
#2. Others, tiring of the sound of Buxtehude and Bach for hours on end, would complain there was no tune. That was exactly the thing he liked best about a fugue, the fact that it could not be sung. A fugue was not singular, as a melody was, but plural. It was a conversation.
Kate Grenville
#4. In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'
Edna O'Brien
#5. But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to invent 'trap-words,' or words that would force the narrator to turn around and start his path anew.
Dumitru Tepeneag
#6. And he wrote the single most famous poem about the death camps, "Todesfuge" (Death Fugue).
Clive James
#7. The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.
Dmitri Shostakovich
#8. The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.
Glenn Gould
#9. Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire.
Joseph Addison
#10. There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment ... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.
Edward Weston
#11. It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.
Desiderius Erasmus
#14. Dude, you didn't fugue, you were just berserk. That's like comparing a lunatic to a pissed guy with goals.
Chris Onstad
#15. Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair.
Angela Carter
#16. No one ever talks about issues like dissociative identity disorder, fugue, or psychotic breaks in anything but the most negative light. No one ever talks about how the personality does this type of thing to protect itself, to save itself, or how powerful and effective it is." I
Lisa Unger
#17. Time will scar my wound and I'll emerge from my fugue tougher, if not healed.
Karen Marie Moning
#18. After about three billion years of this sometimes zany, frequently tedious fugue of carnality and carnage,
Neal Stephenson
#19. I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.
Karen DeCrow
#20. My love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#21. A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.
Dmitri Shostakovich
#22. Yes, her childlessness was a fugue in itself, a flight- this was the habitual theme she was trying now to resist- a flight from her proper destiny. Her failure to become a woman, as her mother understood the term.
Ian McEwan
#23. The dark organ music filled the Department of Post-Mortem Communications. Moist assumed it was all part of the ambience, although the mood would have been more precisely obtained if the tune it was playing did not appear to be Cantate and Fugue for someone Who Has Trouble with the Pedals.
Terry Pratchett
#24. You on the floor in a fugue state, me not knowing what to do. It's remarkable how high-functioning you are, for an insane person. I'm the only one who gets to see you on the floor.
Jonathan Franzen
#25. I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors as Bach has done in music.
Frantisek Kupka
#26. And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
James Hilton
#27. Pray silence for the soloist. But let him be soon over, that we may hear the great striding fugue again.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#28. There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
Maira Kalman
#29. The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#30. The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
Helen Hayes
#31. No pain was permanent, and no loss was real. That even though people treated each other abominably, even though they left, even though you let them go, even though you never laid eyes on them again, this fugue that linked you continued, whether you liked it or not.
Lisa Alther
#32. The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
Michael Tippett
