All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
Interpretation
Music is a reflection of our inner emotions that is evoked by instruments.
In this quote, Walt Whitman emphasizes that music is not merely a collection of notes or sounds, but a powerful expression that resonates within us when triggered by musical instruments. It suggests that our personal experiences and feelings play a crucial role in how we interpret and connect with music, highlighting the profound relationship between art and the human spirit.
In practice
During a workshop on creativity, this quote can be used to inspire participants to explore how music influences their artistic expressions.
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life.
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face,_x000D_ _x000D_ We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss._x000D_ _x000D_ Whoever you are, I give it especially to you;_x000D_ _x000D_ So long!And I hope we shall meet again.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'
I would pass this music store on the way to school, and there was a clarinet in the window, a second-hand one. And I kept asking my parents to buy it, and eventually they did. I still have it now.
As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist.
I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!
The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.
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