Quotes by Genet, Jean

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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The s >>

The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering reside >>

Quotations about Music

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in i >>

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned m >>

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. >>

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean