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Guillaume de Machaut Quotes

d. 1377 France

Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300 – April 1377) was a French poet and a composer in the Ars nova style. He is considered the leading figure in the music of his century.

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He who makes songs without feeling
Spoils both his words and his music.

My end is my beginning, and my beginning my end.

And Music is an art which likes people to laugh and sing and dance. It cares nothing for melancholy, nor for a man who sorrows over what is of no importance, but ignores, instead, such folk. It brings joy everywhere it's present; it comforts the disconsolate, and just hearing it makes people rejoice.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Guillaume de Machaut (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.