If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.
Music Quotes
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.
The twelve-toners behave as if music should be seen and not heard.
In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what – apart from the eternal innocence of animals – offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer, or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of […]
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.
If I had a hammer, I’d use it on Peter, Paul, and Mary.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Everybody was hollering, and I didn’t know what they were hollering at. I came offstage and my manager told me that they was hollering because I was wiggling. And so I went back out for an encore, and I did a little more. And the more I did, the wilder they went.
Only sick music makes money today.
