Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.
Music Quotes
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically.
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I’ve felt it.
A musical page must be translated into sound and, yes, interpreted, before it is much good to anybody. At this point criticism enters. It used to amuse me in Spain that it should take three children to play bull-fight. One plays bull and another plays torero, while the third stands on the side-lines and cries […]
You just pick a chord, go twang, and you’ve got music!
Harpists spend ninety percent of their lives tuning their harps and ten percent playing out of tune.
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all… music expresses itself.
In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.
