Quotes About Fugues

#1. My ex calls the ochre winter 'autumn' as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark. - Broken Verses

Kamila Shamsie

#2. There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Edward Hoagland

#3. A collection of Bach organ fugues (nerds have a thing about Bach),

Neal Stephenson

#4. If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft ... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.

Anthony Burgess

#5. If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

Isaac Mizrahi

#6. Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#7. For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner ... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach ... It is a sort of benediction on the house.

Pablo Casals

#8. The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.

H.L. Mencken

#9. The young think about how they'll change the world, the old think about how the world has changed.

Mardy Grothe

#10. I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

Sophie Kinsella

#11. I'm going to be done when I've decided that I'm done.

David Ortiz

#12. I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

Delta Goodrem

#13. But mortal hearts aren't made for flight, and human bodies are made to break

Lisa Maxwell

#14. To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?

Arthur Rimbaud

#15. If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

Aldous Huxley