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A Greater Music QUOTES

A Greater Music QUOTES

1 " The Schubert devotee continued with her address. Eight years ago after discovering Schubert’s music, this thing she loved above all else, it was as though the scales had finally fallen from her eyes, the previously baffling vagaries of the heart resolved into a sublime symphony, and Nijinsky in his costume of yellow silk became the stars, frozen in the heavens above time’s vista, and when she first encountered that starlight shining in the sky, she drifted away along with the light, into the fine-grained matter of the distant universe, where nobody would ever find her. "

― Bae Suah , A Greater Music

2 " Of course, the teachers were ostensibly the ones who held the school under their sway, but they were merely the kings of the day, while the kings of the underground, the sovereigns of all darkness and terror, the merciless kings who dispensed with reason and logic, the brutal monarchs whose lust for fresh victims had all the hunger of a school of sharptoothed piranhas, who would on no account allow their prey to go free until they were sated; they the kings of the night, already bearing in large part the natural disposition of the mob, and having cultivated day by day, the anti-educators were none other than the pupils. "

― Bae Suah , A Greater Music

3 " The act of its dedication does nothing to music; the music itself reminds unchanged. Its value isn’t something that can be paid in any other coin, not even with the name of a king. Its blanket forgiveness of human faults is a product of the perfect disregard in which it holds these mere mortals, the immeasurable distance by which it exceeds the minor compass of their lives. Music materializes within these lives, within that roiling mass of pettiness and hunger, greed and want, while at the same time remaining outside, able to fix them with an objective gaze. Or gaze, perhaps, beyond them. "

― Bae Suah , A Greater Music