Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Music Quotes
Our music is like cannons hidden in roses.
I perceive you delight not in music… Not a whit, when it jars so. (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
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 a blue guitar.”
It’s a well-kept secret that there are really only four tunes in old-time music: the G Tune, the A Tune, the D Tune, and the C Tune. It’s an even better-kept secret that these four tunes sound exactly the same.
In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
This music mads me; let it sound no more; For though it have holp madmen to their wits, In me it seems it will make wise men mad. Yet blessing on his heart that gives it me! For ’tis a sign of love; and love to Richard Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world. […]
Just as my fingers on the keys Make music, so the self same sounds On my spirit make a music, too. Music is feeling, then, not sound.
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
