Rameau Quotes

#1. I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.

Fay Wray

#2. During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them ... their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#3. Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.

Jean-Philippe Rameau

#4. Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Plato

#5. I try to conceal art with art.

Jean-Philippe Rameau

#6. Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source.

Jean-Philippe Rameau

#7. Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

Jean-Philippe Rameau

#8. I moved away from him, sitting back on my heels and raising my aim to his heart. "Happy anniversary, Frank."

In a flash, he had my gun away from me and I was flat on the floor with his boot against my throat. "You point a gun at me again, I will break your neck.

Nicole Castle

#9. We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

Jean-Philippe Rameau

#10. In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.

Jean-Philippe Rameau

#11. Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

Jean-Philippe Rameau

#12. Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

Jean-Philippe Rameau

#13. I have this thing for British women. I love Judi Dench. I love Helen Mirren. I love these women, and I definitely do have big girl crushes on them.

Jennifer Nettles

#14. Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

Jean-Philippe Rameau

#15. When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

Jean-Philippe Rameau