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Quotes About Fugues

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
~ H. L. Mencken
My ex calls the ochre winter 'autumn' as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark.— Broken Verses
~ Kamila Shamsie
she told him she'd grown up in a household where music was the religion and composers were its saints. Cantatas were chapels. Pavanes were prayer. Fugues were the firmament and God existed in every note.
~ Bradford Morrow
a collection of Bach organ fugues (nerds have a thing about Bach)
~ Neal Stephenson