Quills/music

Famous quotes containing the words quills and/or music:

    “Mr. Treat is described as a Calvinist of the strictest kind, not one of those who, by giving up or explaining away, become like a porcupine disarmed of its quills, but a consistent Calvinist, who can dart his quills at a distance and courageously defend himself.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,—that were a bath and a medicine.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)