When a piece gets difficult, make faces.
Music Quotes
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 […]
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils, The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted: – Mark the music. (The Merchant of Venice)
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Our music is like cannons hidden in roses.
