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Discover the phenomenonal complexity of music and reflect on the way it may in a positive manner influence your life with this sound collection of riveting quotes…
- “Music, the biggest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.”– Joseph Addison
- “Music was my refuge. I could creep into the space amongst the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”–Maya Angelou
- “Music is either good or bad, and it’s got to be learned. You got to have balance.”– Louis Armstrong
- “Music washes away from the soul the dust of each and everyday life.”– Berthold Auerbach
- “The aim and final end of all music must be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.”–Johann Sebastian Bach
- “Music is the mediator amongst the spiritual and the sensual life.”– Ludwig van Beethoven
- “Music – The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of psychological result of perception learning and reasoning which perceives mankind but which mankind can not comprehend.”– Ludwig van Beethoven
- “Music may alter the world. “– Ludwig Van Beethoven
- “Music may name the unnameable and commune the unknowable.”– Leonard Bernstein
- “Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live. “– James Brown
- “Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”– Thomas Carlyle
- “All music comes from God.”– Johnny Cash
- “If you learn music, you’ll learn most all there is to know. “– Edgar Cayce
- “Music is not one thing discerned from me. It is me… You’d have to remove the music surgically. “– Ray Charles
- “Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. “– Miles Davis
- “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”– George Eliot
- “You are the music while the music lasts.”–T. S. Eliot
- “We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. “– Jerry Garcia
- “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the mystery of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”– Kahlil Gibran
- “When people listen good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.”– Edgar Watson Howe
- “Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.”– Victor Hugo
- “The history of a people is found in it is songs.”– George Jellinek
- “Music is the vernacular of the humane soul.”– Geoffrey Latham
- “It requires wisdom to perceive wisdom; the music is not one thing if the audience is deaf.”– Walter J. Lippmann
- “Just as sure selections of music will nourish your physical body and your aroused layer, so other musical works will fetch dandier health to your mind.”– Hal A. Lingerman
- “Music is the symmetrical voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.”– Giuseppe Mazzini
- “Music is a pretty opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.”– Henry Miller
- “I started making music because I could.”– Alanis Morissette
- “Music helps you find the truths you will have to fetch into the rest of your life. “– Alanis Morissette
- “Music is spiritual. The music business is not. “– Van Morrison
- “Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes it is full self, when it is sounds and laws are used by intellectual man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.”– Theodore Mungers
- “Without music life would be a mistake.”– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- “In music the passions get enjoyment from themselves.”– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- “Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They instruct you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.”– Charlie Parker
- “Music must be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside. “– Elvis Presley
- “It’s the music that held us all intact, held us from going crazy. “– Lou Reed
- “The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you recognise is bad for you, but you love each minute with her, anyway.”– Lionel Richie
- “Music ought to never be harmless.”– Robbie Robertson
- “Give me a laundry list and I’ll set it to music.”– Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
- “All music is indispensable if it comes from the heart. “– Carlos Santana
- “Music is the key to the female heart.”– Johann G. Seume
- “The best music… is fundamentally there to provide you something to face the world with. “– Bruce Springsteen
- “All I undertake to do is write music that feels significant to me, that has dedication and passion behind it.”– Bruce Springsteen
- “In music one will have to think with the heart and feel with the brain.”–George Szell
- “When I listen music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”– Henry David Thoreau
- “For heights and depths no words may reach, music is the soul’s own speech.”–Unknown
- “Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.”–Unknown
- “I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn’t just a fad. This is a positive thing.”– Eddie Vedder
- “Music at it is essence is what gives us memories. “– Stevie Wonder
- “There’s a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don’t recognise what it is. But I’ve got it.”– Ron Wood
J Edgar Hoover Man Secrets
“The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right: Hoover’s FBI was an American gestapo.”—Newsweek
Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentry’s masterful portrait of America’s top policeman is a distinctive political biography. From more than 300 consultations and over 100,000 pages of antecedently classified documents, Gentry reveals precisely how a paranoid conductor produced the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible FBI. For closely fifty years, Hoover kept nearly unchecked public power, controlling each president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon. He kept extensive blackmail files and applied illegal wiretaps and concealed microphones to destruct anybody who opposed him. The book reveals how Hoover helped manufacture McCarthyism, blackmailed the Kennedy brothers, and influenced the Supreme Court; how he retarded the civil rights motion and forged connections with mobsters; and what part he played in the investigations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. A New York Times bestseller. “This massive new study promises to be the most spacious and arguable yet. . . . A chilling look at the darker side of American politics.”—Library Journal 32 pages of photographs
From Publishers WeeklyDetail, depth, and sheer vitrol mark this portrait of the former FBI director, which was a nine-week PW bestseller and a BOMC main selection in cloth.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library JournalSince his death in 1972, there has been an increasing fascination with Hoover and the vast power he wielded as conductor of the FBI. Although there have been two recent major biographies–Athan G. Theoharis’s The Boss ( LJ 6/1/88) and Richard G. Powers’s Secrecy and Power ( LJ 2/1/87)–this massive new study promises to be the most spacious and debatable yet. Gentry, who coauthored Helter Skelter ( LJ 11/15/74), has based his account of Hoover on more than 300 consultations and on access to antecedently classified FBI documents. Beginning with a behind-the-scenes description of Hoover’s death and the search for his “secret files” that is novelistic in technique, Gentry paints a portrait of Hoover as the “indispensable man,” with a great deal of provocative revelations in regards to his political dealings. This is a chilling look at the darker side of American politics, exceptionally concerning Hoover’s foes list and his relentless investigation of Martin Luther King Jr.’s personal life. The book’s lively readability is balanced by lengthy footnotes and by an extensive list of source notes and interviews, and it will be in demand in both academic and public libraries. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/15/91; see also From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover , reviewed in this issue, p. 125.–Ed.
- Thomas A. Karel, Franklin & Marshall Coll. Lib., Lancaster, Pa.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus ReviewsBased on more than 300 consultations and 100,000 pages of antecedently classified documents, this enormous, blistering expos‚ seems hellbent on proving that the legendary FBI conductor had not feet of clay, but cloven hoofs. Gentry, coauthor of Helter-Skelter, depicts a bureaucrat par excellency who over 48 years maintained an empire through mystery files that one anonymous politician called “political cancer.” Hoover’s cautiously burnished reputation as the incorruptible defender of the American way of life was for the most part a fraud, Gentry argues. Much of this book provides further and added material on how Hoover sought to undermine his long list of enemies, which included Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Truman, the Kennedys, Emma Goldman, Martin Luther King, Jr., and his most enduring nemesis, OSS head “Wild Bill” Donovan (whom Hoover foiled in his ambitions to become attorney-general and CIA director). More important, a heap of revelations here will further tarnish Hoover’s reputation, including how the conductor suppressed data unfavorable to the Bureau for the duration of the Warren Commission’s investigation of JFK’s murder; how he destroyed congressmen and even Supreme Court Associate Justice Abe Fortas; and how he became a “petty thief” by misappropriating government funds and concealing royalties from bestselling books, movies, and the TV-series The FBI. Unfortunately, not similar to Richard Gid Powers’s more balanced and subtle Secrecy and Power (1987), Gentry scarcely acknowledges Hoover’s organizational talent or the middle-class milieu that was the source of his political and moral conservatism. A revealing and grimly arousing and attention holding political horror tale- -which, however, too often times caricatures Hoover as a sinister ‚minence grise rather than as a 20th-century power broker shaped (or misshaped) by his late-Victorian upbringing. (Seventy-one b&w photographs.) — Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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53 of 55 people found the following review helpful.
 A thoroughly detailed, fascinating, and shocking account of a complex man
By Todd Adams
A fascinating and comprehensive look at a complex, powerful, and manipulative man. Gentry brings to life the power that Hoover held, power bestowed on him by virtue of the secrets he held in the massive volumes of FBI files he collected over his 48 year tenure.
Hoover’s far reach and influence are stunning. Most people probably have a cursory idea of Hoover’s god-like legacy, but Gentry brings out the jaw dropping, scandalous details in vivid candor. Hoover had leverage over his superiors – the president and the attorney general – as well as his subordinates, Congress, Hollywood, local police jurisdictions, and civil rights leaders. His sway only increased with every year his held his office.
Gentry’s account is exhaustively researched and probably the most extensive and authoritative history of Hoover in existence. He delves into the paradox that Hoover was, a rigid, aggravating, unlikeable, and deeply vindictive man to many, yet to a few close associates, he was engaging and affable, if not warm, and to him they were 100% loyal.
Hoover was no doubt a product of his time. For the calculating personality he possessed, who could ask for better career advancement opportunities than to serve in a time of the depression, bootleggers, gansters, the mafia, the Communist red scare, and the Kennedy assasinations successively. All during Hoover’s time at the FBI, there was a valid argument to be made that he was simply indispensible. The desire of many in government to end his tenure was thwarted time after time, almost to a comical degree. Hoover was saved by the skin of his teeth more than once by fortuitous turns of events.
Beyond just Hoover, this book explores the dark side of politics in general. The horse trading, the double dealing, the secret deals, the blacklisting, blackmailing, break-ins, cover-ups, set-ups, take-downs, paybacks, payoffs, and the vindictiveness. It’s ugly, ugly work. Most would have no idea their own government operates in such a shameful, despicable manner.
Gentry writes in an engaging narrative style that’s easy to read and compelling. The book is well paced and very cohesive despite covering a wide time period and a diverse range of incidents. The book is lengthy and comprehensive. It does not skimp on details. I’m hard pressed to imagine a more thorough account.
I highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in this period of contemporary American history or the fascinating personality that was J. Edgar Hoover.
37 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
 Very detailed and not for everybody
By mike S
The book is very well researched and detailed. If you ever wanted the facts (I got the feeling all of them) it’s here. It kept me interested for about 500 pages, but after a while, it just got a bit relentless.
Not to say the book is written poorly, but be ready for a heavy, fact filled, hugely referenced, textbook style read.
45 of 50 people found the following review helpful.
A masterpiece of careful documentation
By David Robinson
In the context of recent concerns about spying on Americans by the Executive Branch of government, it is timely to re-read this classic biography. Gentry skips sensationalism and scandal, but his carefully detailed portrait shows a nasty, bigotted old man who happily chiselled his employer.
So how did Hoover remain in power for half a century? Simply put, he had a file on everyone. And he wasn’t afraid of using his minions to imply the threat of blackmail.
There’s little evidence of active homosexuality by Hoover, indeed labelling someone a “fag” seems to have been his biggest threat. However, here we have a many who lived with his mother until his mid-40′s, whose “Associate Director” was his daily companion whose adult sexuality at best could be called retarded.
Gentry’s indictment of Hoover does not avoid his few good qualities — he was a hard worker and an efficient administrator. The notes and footnotes are extensive, but do not interfere with a page-turning narrative for those who want to go quickly. In sum, it amounts to a crashing indictment of a man whose name does not deserve to be on a government building.
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