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.
Music Quotes
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 […]
Beethoven would often get so engrossed in his art that everyday life and reality would often be totally oblivious to him. He would often go into restaurants and sit at the table for hours in deep thought before finally demanding the bill only to be told he hasn’t yet ordered anything! If a pupil lived […]
I remember one day being in a music history class and a white woman was the teacher. She was… saying that the reason black people played the blues was because they were poor and had to pick cotton. In response to that comment, I said, “I’m from East St. Louis, and my father is rich, […]
When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.
I’ll play it first and tell you what it is afterwards.
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
That’s it! That’s the noise I want to make! (statement when he saw Pete Seeger on TV playing banjo)
In experiments, the plants grew lush foliage and large roots when baroque music was played to them, and they leaned toward the music as if toward the sun.
