Saturday, December 10, 2011


It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites -- opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity -- where energies flow smoothly in one direction -- there will be much doing but no music.

-- Eric Hoffer
(in Notations: Quotations on Music,
edited by Sallye Leventhal)

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