The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.


From Pierre-Daniel Templier's biography, 1932. As reported in: Composers on Music: Eight Centuries of Writings (UPNE, 1997), p. 223

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The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.