In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
Music Quotes
This music mads me; let it sound no more; For though it have holp madmen to their wits, In me it seems it will make wise men mad. Yet blessing on his heart that gives it me! For ’tis a sign of love; and love to Richard Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world. […]
Just as my fingers on the keys Make music, so the self same sounds On my spirit make a music, too. Music is feeling, then, not sound.
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
How sour sweet music is When time is broke and no proportions kept! So it is in the music of men’s lives. (Richard II)
I don’t think you can really appreciate Lohengrin on first hearing. And I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time!
The study of the history of music and the hearing of masterworks of different epochs will quickly cure you of vanity and self-adoration.
Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.
Give me a laundry list and I’ll set it to music.
