We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.
Music Quotes
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.
Maybe it’s not as bad as it sounds (when asked to comment on the music of Richard Wagner).
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.
Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically.
