Race/music

Famous quotes containing the words race and/or music:

“The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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