I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.
Music Quotes
The twelve-toners behave as if music should be seen and not heard.
In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what – apart from the eternal innocence of animals – offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer, or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of […]
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.
If I had a hammer, I’d use it on Peter, Paul, and Mary.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Objectivity in music is rubbish – Have you ever had an objective love affair? And what is music but love?
Nothing on earth is so well suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.
I don’t go to hear music much because I dislike sitting in seats, confined for an hour or two between maybe unpleasant people and having to hear stuff that maybe I don’t want to hear. When you go to a concert, you have to take what the professor offers.
Compare the music of the Beggar’s Opera with the music of a contemporary revue. They differ as life in the Garden of Eden differed from life in the artistic quarter of Gomorrah.
