It’s nonsense to talk so much about being faithful to the ideals of one’s youth. There is room for development surely. I have always felt happiest in life when I thought I had added if only a little to the ideals of my youth. What is life more than a struggle for the realization truths? […]
Music Quotes
No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music, or it isn’t music.
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
Composers shouldn’t think too much it interferes with their plagiarism.
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, ‘Is there a meaning to music?’ My answer would be, ‘Yes.’ And ‘Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?’ My answer to that would be, ‘No.’
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes
Blues is a good woman feeling bad.
I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.
I hate music, especially when it’s played.
