Haven't seen many MUSIC quotes lately
David McKay
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Berthold
Auerbach
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I've felt it. - Igor
Stravinsky
My favourite album title: Songs I Learnt At My Mother's Knee (and some other
low joints)
Author unknown
I like jazz, except when it sounds as though the musicians are making it up
as they go along.
W. H. Auden (1907-73)
Music,
which can be made anywhere,
Is invisible and does not smell
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of
God and the refreshment of the soul. If heed is not paid to this, it is not
true music but a diabolical bawling and twanging.
You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time
and the music plays itself.
I have always kept one end in view, namely, with all good will to conduct a
well-regulated church music to the honour of God.
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
Borodin
Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.
Johannes Brahms
"If there is anyone here who I have not offended tonight, I beg his pardon."
John Cage (1912-1992)
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring,
then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it
is not boring at all.
Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a
music school?
My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music
I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
Confucius (551-478 BC)
When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be
no war.
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
Aaron Copland (1900-90)
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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.'
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
[Of discords] Le régal de l'ouïe.
A feast for the ear.
Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
Playing 'Bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
Lili Kraus (1905- )
Objectivity in music is rubbish ... Have you ever had an objective love
affair? And what is music but love?
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in
the world.
We have decided to follow the example of the prophets and the fathers of the
church and write German hymns for the German people.
Paul McCartney (1942- )
There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and
write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
Henry Miller (1891-1980)
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
James Morrison [on his song Ease On In]
It's kind of like a funky sort of Afro-Cuban swinging jazz-rock sort of
Classical punk waltz reggae calypso sort of Scottish feel.
Sergei Rachmaninov
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
Ned Rorem (1923- )
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no
meaning to speak of.
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.
Artur Schnabel
Music is ...but the pauses between the notes... that is where the art
resides.
Robert Schumann
The study of the history of music and the hearing of masterworks of
different epochs will quickly cure you of vanity and self-adoration.
Frank Sinatra
It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or
violin - not sounding like them, but 'playing' the voice like those
instruments.
Cristopher Smart (1722-71)
Glorious the song, when God's the theme.
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or
better able to praise Him than the building of the church and all its
decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I
should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in
anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God
Sid Vicious
You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music!
Oscar Wilde
Of course music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music,
people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Frank Zappa
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Some people crave baseball -- I find this unfathomable --
but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing a
bassoon.
I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the
albums. And if they don't like it, there's always Michael Jackson for them
to listen to.
It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm
wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him
right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong jus because a few million
people think you are?
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk
for people who can't read.
Andrei A. Zhdanov (1896-19848)
The people do not need music which they cannot understand.
David McKay
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~musicke
Ed C
Wagner's music is better than it sounds~Mark Twain
There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music~H.L. Mencken
As some to church repair,
Not for the doctrine, but the music there~Alexander Pope
Hell is full of musical amateurs. Music is the brandy of the damned~George
Bernard Shaw.
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean,
monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in
its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy~Charles Gounod on
_Palestrina_.
I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put
on records forever~Sir Arthur Sullivan.
Music-making as a means of getting money is hell~Gustav Holst
Ed
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David McKay
> Wagner's music is better than it sounds~Mark Twain
Love that one, too, Ed and also Rossini on Lohengrin:
I don't think you can fully appreciate Lohengrin on first hearing, and I
certainly don't intend to hear it a second time!
--
David McKay
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~musicke