The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides!
Music Quotes
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony… Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st But in his motion like an angel sings, […]
Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
When a piece gets difficult, make faces.
When griping grief the heart doth wound and doleful dumps the mind oppress then music with the silver sound with speedy help, doth lend redress. (“Romeo and Juliet”)
When I started in music, I thought, ‘My job is pretty simple. I search for the human things in myself, and I turn them into notes and words, and then in some fashion, I help people hold on to their own humanity.’
I would only make you a bad Schoenberg, and you’re such a good Gershwin already. (To George Gershwin, when asked if he could be accepted as one of Schoenberg’s pupils.)
If music be the food of love, play on. (“Twelfth Night”)
Whiskey and music, I reflected, especially when taken together, made time fly incredibly fast
Musical performances at the court of Frederick the Great in Berlin included selections performed on the flute by the king himself. As his confidence increased, so did the frequency of his performances. As the court musician, it fell to C.P.E. Bach to accompany the king at the piano. After one such royal performance, a sycophantic […]
