Music Endures And Ages Far Better Than Books. Books, Made Of Words, Are Unavoidably Attached To Ideas, Events, Conflict, And History, But Music Has The Power To Transcend Time.

Music Endures And Ages Far Better Than Books. Books, Made Of Words, Are Unavoidably Attached To Ideas, Events, Conflict, And History, But Music Has The Power To Transcend Time.

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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are
unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has
the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh
today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells
of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
-- Edward Abbey

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