If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music… I get most joy in life out of music.
Music Quotes
Swans sing before they die; ’tweren’t a bad thing – Should certain persons die before they sing.
My parents occupied the bedroom directly above mine while I was growing up. Luckily they were heavy sleepers, and loud music late at night didn’t seem to bother them much – unless, of course, it was the high-pitched guitar or vocal work of Neil Young. On such occasions, my mother would trudge downstairs, rap at […]
He (Richard Wagner) was the first to use music as a means of influencing, of entrancing, of intoxicating, of conquering. To be sure, all musicians direct their attention to the ‘world’ – to connois- seurs, to a community great or small, to the nation. Even before Wagner a few composers had felt impelled to create […]
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
I saw the best musicians of my generation maybe not the best but plenty good believe me – splattering their illegible scrawls on the fatal last pages of criminally exploitative recording contracts beneath the gaze of predatory mobbed up executives regarding with displeasure the sheepish grin of their own helpless attorney who deserted their beloved […]
Music sweeps by me as a messenger – Carrying a message that is not for me.
Groups are out, four piece groups with guitars particularly are finished. The boys won’t go, Mr. Epstein. We know these things. You have a good business in Liverpool. Stick to that. (Decca Records, 1962)
When I was nine, I got “With The Beatles,” and my grandma bought me a honky old drum and an old cymbal. That’s it, isn’t it; what more is there? A drum, a cymbal and “With The Beatles.” Has the world really come on much further?
A decisive moment in the history of Western civilization. (About “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” in the London Times, 1977)
