John of Nepomuk - Music

Famous quotes containing the word music:

“Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)

“But the dark changed to red, and torches shone,
And deafening music shook the leaves; a troop
Shouldered a litter with a wounded man,
Or smote upon the string and to the sound
Sang of the beast that gave the fatal wound.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)