Work/music

Famous quotes containing the words work and/or music:

“How dare I read Washington’s campaigns, when I have not answered the letters of my own correspondents? Is not that a just objection to much of our reading? It is a pusillanimous desertion of our work to gaze after our neighbours. It is peeping.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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