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.
Music Quotes
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.
The sweetest music is the sound of the voice of the woman we love.
Music makes people kinder, gentler, more staid and reasonable. The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the word of God.
Melody is a form of remembrance… It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts.
You’re talking to someone who really understands rock music.
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites – opposite bends, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity – where energies flow smoothly in one direction – there will be much doing but no music.
It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing.
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.
