The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Disunion by force is treason.
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.
Bad literature is a form of treason.