When I don’t like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely.
Music Quotes
I am never merry when I hear sweet music. (The Merchant of Venice)
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides!
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… Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st But in his motion like an angel sings, […]
Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
When a piece gets difficult, make faces.
When griping grief the heart doth wound and doleful dumps the mind oppress then music with the silver sound with speedy help, doth lend redress. (“Romeo and Juliet”)
When I started in music, I thought, ‘My job is pretty simple. I search for the human things in myself, and I turn them into notes and words, and then in some fashion, I help people hold on to their own humanity.’
Karajan enjoys one advantage Bernstein does not: a single great orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic. Bernstein has done wonderful things all over the place but that is like having a bunch of great mistresses instead of one wife. It can be a lot of fun but it gets exhausting. On the other hand, Karajan gets his […]
