"Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts."
― Rebecca West
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Music
More From Rebecca West
- "There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."
- "A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere."
- "The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
More In Music
- "Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world."― George Santayana
- "For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness."― Reba McEntire
- "A widow’s refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope."― Samuel Richardson