Famous quotes containing the words music, strings, percussion and/or place:
“As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“We got our new rifled muskets this morning. They are mostly old muskets, many of them used, altered from flint-lock to percussion ... but the power of the gun was fully as great as represented. The ball at one-fourth mile passed through the largest rails; at one-half mile almost the same.... I think it an excellent arm.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“And air-like leave no pression to be seen
Where’er they met, or parting place has been.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)