I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. Thats different. For a monkey its terrific.
Theres music in the sighing of a reed; Theres music in the gushing of a rill; Theres music in all things if we have ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.
When thunder comes it relieves the tension and promotes positive action. Music can do the same by making people enthusiastic and united together. When used to promote good it brings them closer to heaven.
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit Jessica: look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; Theres not the smallest orb which thou beholdst But in his motion like an angel sings Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in we cannot hear it.
Psychologists have found that music does things to you whether you like it or not. Fast tempos invariably raise your pulse respiration and blood pressure; slow music lowers them.
Truly fertile Music the only kind that will move us that we shall truly appreciate will be a Music conducive to Dream which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be young young all your life and to say things to the world that are true. At a concert he played when he was 95.
Since I am coming to that holy room Where with thy choir of saints for evermore I shall be made thy music as I come I tune the instrument here at the door And what I must do then think here before.
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
I dont know anything about music. In my line you dont have to.
I cant listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Maybe its not as bad as it sounds.
Music inflames temperament.
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
Music makes one feel so romantic at least it always gets on ones nerves which is the same thing nowadays.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Never look at the trombones. Youll only encourage them.
Opera in English is in the main about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time when he was an old man to learn music and dancing and thought it time well spent.
The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things a poet in words a musician by sounds.
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. Thats different. For a monkey its terrific.
Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.
I dont she added know anything about music really. But I know what I like.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man And bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Theres music in the sighing of a reed; Theres music in the gushing of a rill; Theres music in all things if we have ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
There is no feeling except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music.
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
When thunder comes it relieves the tension and promotes positive action. Music can do the same by making people enthusiastic and united together. When used to promote good it brings them closer to heaven.
Music is esentially useless as is life.
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit Jessica: look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; Theres not the smallest orb which thou beholdst But in his motion like an angel sings Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in we cannot hear it.
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.
They said You have a blue guitar You do not play things as they are. The man replied Things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar.
He has Van Goghs ear for music.
A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.
Psychologists have found that music does things to you whether you like it or not. Fast tempos invariably raise your pulse respiration and blood pressure; slow music lowers them.
If ya ain?t got it in ya ya can?t blow it out.
LYRE n. An ancient instrument of torture.
Tell me the tales that to me were so dear Long long ago long long ago.
Brass bands are all very well in their place outdoors and several miles away.
Music is a revelation; a revelation loftier than all wisdom and all philosophy.
I sought my soul But my soul I could not see. I sought my God But my God eluded me. I sought my brother And I found all three.
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast To soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. By magic numbers and persuasive sound.
I hate music especially when its played.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
There?s many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
Music is a means of Rapid Transportation.
Truly fertile Music the only kind that will move us that we shall truly appreciate will be a Music conducive to Dream which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
I am amazed at radio DJs today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.
I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be young young all your life and to say things to the world that are true. At a concert he played when he was 95.
All music jars when the souls out of tune.
Since I am coming to that holy room Where with thy choir of saints for evermore I shall be made thy music as I come I tune the instrument here at the door And what I must do then think here before.
It Dont Mean a Thing If It Aint Got That Swing.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.