Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Music Quotes
One good thing about music… when it hits you feel no pain… so hit me with music.
It must be born with a man to be contented to take up with little things. Women have a great advantage that they may take up with little things, without disgracing themselves: a man cannot, except with fiddling. Had I learned to fiddle I should have done nothing else.
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
Music, the mosaic of the air.
Yet there is one thing the world with all its rottenness cannot take from us, and that is the deep and abiding joy and consolation perpetuate in great music. Here the spirit may find home and relief when all else fails.
I see man as someone into whose hands God has placed a hammer and a violin. Such a person lives a very happy life, he sees that with the hammer he can satisfy his material needs, and he feels that the violin opens up a world beyond language, beyond logic, a world that he cannot […]
Go to the great concerts where you know that the music is good, and that you ought to like it whether you do or not. Take a music-bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body. I […]
Composing is like making love to the future.
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First, to discourage the composer from writing any more, and secondly, to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.
