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.
Music Quotes
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.
Music-making as a means of getting money is hell.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
When words leave off, music begins.
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.
