“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.”
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“A person who...does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs."
[Foreward to Georg Rhau's (1488-1548) Collection Symphoniae iucundae, 1538]”
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[Foreward to Georg Rhau's (1488-1548) Collection Symphoniae iucundae, 1538]”
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