New Orts #10
March 24 MMXXIV
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
-- origin unknown. It has been attributed to dozens of people:
https://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Writing_about_music_is_like_dancing_about_architecture
Architecture is frozen music. (Architektur ist gefrorene Musik, Architektur ist zu Stein gewordene Musik, ... )
-- attributed variously to Schopenhauer, Schelling, Goethe, ... , sometimes with “and music is melted architecture”
Without music, life would be a mistake.
(Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum)
-- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), in Twilight of the Idols (1889)
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