From A Mass for Lucero:
“To the two gods of art, Apollo and Dionysus, we owe our recognition that… there is a tremendous opposition, as regards both origins and aims, between the Apolline art of the sculptor and the non-visual, Dionysiac art of music.”
— The Birth of Tragedy, by Friedrich Nietzsche, Penguin, 1993, page 14
“Melody, then, is both primary and universal.” (Author’s italics)
— Nietzsche, op. cit., page 33
“…in so far as he interprets music in images, he himself lies amidst the peaceful waves of Apolline contemplation….”
— Nietzsche, op. cit., page 35
From The Miracle of the Bells, by Russell Janney, Prentice-Hall, 1946, page 333–
“He was singing softly:
‘A pretty girl–
is like a melody—- !‘
But that was always
Bill Dunnigan’s
Song of Victory….
Thus thought the…
press agent for
‘The Garden of the Soul.'”