A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Music Quotes
Rap is to music as Etch-A-Sketch is to art.
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best!
The only thing to do with a folk melody, once you have played it, is to play it louder.
I like Wagner’s music better than anybody’s. It’s so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says. That is a great advantage.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
A folksinger is someone who sings through his nose by ear.
If one hears bad music it is one’s duty to drown it by one’s conversation.
Some people crave baseball – I find this unfathomable but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing a bassoon.
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn’t.
