Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.

-Wordsworth,William
^1805  The Prelude, bk.1, l.340^4 (published1850).

Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains; each a mighty voice: In both from age to age thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen music, Liberty!

-Wordsworth,William
  'Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland', l.1^4.

   Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere if theyare serious about this music† There is no valid motivation for it other than loveöoutlaw motivation in a profit-motivated society.

-Zwerin, Mike
  LaTristesse de Saint Louis: Swing Under the Nazis, ch.4.