Primitive/music

Famous quotes containing the words primitive and/or music:

“Good music is very close to primitive language.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

“Nearly all the bands are mustered out of service; ours therefore is a novelty. We marched a few miles yesterday on a road where troops have not before marched. It was funny to see the children. I saw our boys running after the music in many a group of clean, bright-looking, excited little fellows.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)