“The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.”
– Thomas Beecham
On The Function of Music
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Clangour [Noun.]
A loud, repeating clanging sound.
Imagine
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
No religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
– John Lennon
On Fame
“Fame is a figment of everyone else’s imagination.”
– Van Morrison
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Gagingwell is a hamlet in West Oxfordshire, England.
Until Abramic religions were introduced in Egyptian society, women had been independent, empowered and emancipated citizens.
Roman Emperor Vespasian introduced a tax on the sale of urine. Therefore, the phrase pecunia non olet, ‘money does not stink’, is ascribed to him.
Mutterkuchen, the German word for placenta literally means ‘mother cake’.
Stravinsky had an affair with Coco Chanel in the summer of 1920. He was revising the Rite of Spring at the time, and she was about to launch Chanel No.5.
See other: Quite Interesting Facts
On Being Betrothed to Laughter
“I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.”
– Peter Ustinov
On More More
“If less is more, just think how much more more would be.”
– Frasier Crane
Time and a Word
In the morning when you rise,
Do you open up your eyes, see what I see?
Do you see the same things every day?
Do you think of a way to start the day
Getting things in proportion?
Spread the news and help the world go ’round.
Have you heard of a time that will help us get it together again?
Have you heard of the word that will stop us going wrong?
Well, the time is near and the word you’ll hear
When you get things in perspective.
Spread the news and help the word go round.
There’s a time and the time is now and it’s right for me,
It’s right for me, and the time is now.
There’s a word and the word is love and it’s right for me,
It’s right for me, and the word is love.
Have you heard of a time that will help get it together again?
Have you heard of the word that will stop us going wrong?
Well, the time is near and the word you’ll hear
When you get things in perspective.
Spread the news and help the word go round.
There’s a time and the time is now and it’s right for me,
It’s right for me, and the time is now.
There’s a word and the word is love and it’s right for me,
It’s right for me, and the word is love.
– Jon Anderson, David Foster
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