Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Music Quotes
A folksinger is someone who sings through his nose by ear.
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.
Some sounds are as good as two cups of coffee. Georgian chants are a fantastic energy source.
We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a downside.
We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.
I’ve never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
