John Dowland quotes
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“Who loves not music and the heavenly muse, That man God hates.”
-- John DowlandSource : 1614 Commendatory poem to William Leighton's Teares or Lamentations of a Sorrowfull Soule.
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“Plato defines melody to consist of harmony, number and words: harmony naked of itself, words the ornament of harmony, number the common friend and uniter of them both.”
-- John Dowland -
“Semper Dowland semper dolens.”
-- John DowlandSource : "Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares". 1604.
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“All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here”
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“I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.”
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
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“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.”
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“Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.”
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