Two years of close association with some of the best, as well as some of the worst, tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues. (On editing The English Hymnal)
Music Quotes
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain.
How do you know when it’s time to tune your bagpipes?
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
The people do not need music which they cannot understand.
Musicians duet better.
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
There is a Temple in Heaven that is opened only through song.
Accordion, n.: A bagpipe with pleats.
Ya Got Trouble… Libertine men and scarlet women-and ragtime! Shameless music that’ll grab your son, your daughter In the arms of a jungle animal instinct – massteria!
