Instruments/music

Famous quotes containing the words instruments and/or music:

“The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden.... Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.”
—Octave Mirbeau (1850–1917)

“Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.”
—André Malraux (1901–1976)