Anne Louise Germaine de Staël - Music Quotes

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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets. For a moment, music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests as we should at a ball, where we did not hear the music; the dancing that we saw there would appear insane.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël