MUSIC in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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1 All that music in the air, for instance.
2 Nobody--in spite of the music, in spite of the mounting excitement.
3 In the synthetic music machine the sound-track roll began to unwind.
4 The loud-speakers veiled their commands in a genial and musical politeness.
5 The music quickened; faster beat the feet, faster, faster fell the rhythmic hands.
6 The synthetic music plant was working as they entered the hall and left nothing to be desired.
7 The place was queer, so was the music, so were the clothes and the goitres and the skin diseases and the old people.
8 Outside, in the other room, the Savage was striding up and down, marching, marching to the drums and music of magical words.
9 The President switched off the music and, with the final note of the final stanza, there was absolute silence--the silence of stretched expectancy, quivering and creeping with a galvanic life.
10 Nothing to do, and the hotel too hopelessly old-fashioned--no television laid on in the bedrooms, no scent organ, only the most putrid synthetic music, and not more than twenty-five Escalator-Squash Courts for over two hundred guests.
11 The President reached out his hand; and suddenly a Voice, a deep strong Voice, more musical than any merely human voice, richer, warmer, more vibrant with love and yearning and compassion, a wonderful, mysterious, supernatural Voice spoke from above their heads.
12 The President stood up, made the sign of the T and, switching on the synthetic music, let loose the soft indefatigable beating of drums and a choir of instruments--near-wind and super-string--that plangently repeated and repeated the brief and unescapably haunting melody of the first Solidarity Hymn.
13 Flood-lighted, its three hundred and twenty metres of white Carrara-surrogate gleamed with a snowy incandescence over Ludgate Hill; at each of the four corners of its helicopter platform an immense T shone crimson against the night, and from the mouths of twenty-four vast golden trumpets rumbled a solemn synthetic music.
14 Round they went, a circular procession of dancers, each with hands on the hips of the dancer preceding, round and round, shouting in unison, stamping to the rhythm of the music with their feet, beating it, beating it out with hands on the buttocks in front; twelve pairs of hands beating as one; as one, twelve buttocks slabbily resounding.