After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: “Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him.”
Music Quotes
All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments, it is not the violins and the cornets, it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza, nor that of the men’s chorus, nor that of the woman’s chorus It […]
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language… We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a “common goal” of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
Soprano: “I must insist, Maestro, that my way is right. Remember, I am a star.” Toscanini: “The only stars I recognize, Madam, are in heaven. Down here, we are all workers in the cause of music.”
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
A painter paints pictures on canvas but musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
All of us contain Music and Truth, but most of us can’t get it out.
The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise Him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church’s greatest ornament.
Some sounds are as good as two cups of coffee. Georgian chants are a fantastic energy source.
