sTRANGE qUOTES & Other Found Stuff
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#1
"Any
great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure
of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world—the
extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its sTRANGE, special
air."
L.
Bernstein, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, 7607.
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#2
Amory
winced, and wondered how this would have sounded to Froggy Parker.
"Yes,"
continued Beatrice tragically, "I had dreams—wonderful visions."
She pressed the palms of her hands into her eyes. "I saw bronze rivers lapping
marble shores, and great birds that soared through the air, parti-colored birds
with iridescent plumage. I heard sTRANGE mUSIC and the flare of barbaric
trumpets—what?"
Amory had snickered.
"What, Amory?"
"I said, go on, Beatrice."
-
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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#3
"Constant as the movement of a clock, she ran her course; and the sTRANGE mUSIC, at each repetition of the tune, gave a new impulse to the dance, recommencing and again rushing off as at first."
"Wilhelm was quite led away by this singular spectacle; he forgot his cares; he followed every movement of the dear little creature, and felt surprised to see how finely her character unfolded itself as she proceeded in the dance."
J.W. von Goethe (1749-1832)
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Book
II
Chapter VIII
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#4
ACT
3, SCENE 3: Another part of the island.
Enter
ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others.
[Solemn and sTRANGE mUSIC.]
ALONSO: What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!
GONZALO: Marvellous sweet mUSIC!
Enter PROSPERO above, invisible. Enter several strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet; they dance about it with gentle actions of salutation; and, inviting the King, &c. to eat, they depart
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest
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#5
"sTRANGE
mUSIC in my ears,
Only now as you spoke, did it start.
sTRANGE mUSIC
of the spheres,
Could it's lovely hum be coming from my heart?
You appear
and I hear song sublime,
Song that I'm incapable of.
So Dear, let me hold
you near,
While we treasure ev'ry measure,
So that time can never change,
The sTRANGE, new mUSIC of love."
Lyrics by James Melton, musical adaptation by R. Wright and G. Forrest (1944), based on "Nocturne" and "Wedding Day in Troldhaugen" by Edvard Grieg
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#6
"The
most beautiful thing we can experience is the sTRANGE. It is the source
of all true art and science."
Albert Einstein
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