W. S. Gilbert (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame) was talking to a pretentious but musically illiterate woman who asked him, “Is Bach still composing?” Rather than say, “He’s been dead for more than a century,” Gilbert offered one of history’s Truly Great Replies: “No, madam, he is decomposing.”
Music Quotes
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
I heard he sang a good song I heard he had a style And so I came to see him And listen for a while. And there he was this young boy A stranger to my eyes. Strumming my pain with his fingers Singing my life with his words Killing me softly with his song […]
The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords If when the soul unto the lines accords.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
The effects of good music are not just because it’s new; on the contrary, music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
See, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don’t believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight, take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your CD’s and burn ’em. Cause you know what? The musicians who made […]
‘Lohengrin’ to us ordinary mortals seemed something like the whistling of the wind through the keyholes of a cathedral, which has a dreamy charm for a little while, but by and by you long for the sound even of a street organ to rush in and break the monotony.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
