Horace
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
music faults singers
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
music play strings
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
music singing want
There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.
incitement music-is
Music is an incitement to love.
anger believe musical personally politics
I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.
jazz backgrounds background-music
Jazz is not background music.
music swings bebop
Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a stew. You put all these various ingredients in it. You season it with this. You put that in it. You put the other in it. You mix it all up and it comes out something neat, something that you created.
music eight years
They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians that I was going to use. They let me do my thing. That's one reason I stayed there for twenty-eight years.
people joy musical
Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.
music mind trying
We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.
music order jazz
Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.
music children would-be
Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
people musical taught
Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do not understand a word that we hear.... Others are full of growling, snarling, hissing sounds, as though wild beasts and serpents had first taught the people to speak.
guilty pale secrets turn wall
Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale