Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor quotes

“The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict.”
-- Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor

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“Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”

“I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.”

“An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.”

Source : "Obituary". "Nature", Volume 260, April 17, 1965.

“Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra.”

“'Algebra' roughly translates to 'the system for reconciling disparate parts.'”

“Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature.”

“If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.”

“The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.”

“After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.”