Quote #7
My favourite musician happens to be the same as Shakespeare's: John Dowland. His songs are sorrowful but heal the soul by their sweetness and courage.
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- He was the rarest musician that his age did behold; having travelled beyond the seas, and compounded English with foreign skill in that fac…
- Semper Dowland semper dolens.
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