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«The song is ended / But the melody lingers on.»
Author: Irving Berlin (Composer) | About: Songs | Keywords: ended, lingers, melody
«The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending»
Author: Igor Stravinsky | About: Music | Keywords: ending, melody, starting, the Endless
«The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.»
«To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.»
«There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets»

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