I am convinced that Beethoven had a lower I.Q. than a bank director, but I am willing to exchange all bank directors for the one Beethoven.
Music Quotes
We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves.
As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.
Karajan enjoys one advantage Bernstein does not: a single great orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic. Bernstein has done wonderful things all over the place but that is like having a bunch of great mistresses instead of one wife. It can be a lot of fun but it gets exhausting. On the other hand, Karajan gets his […]
Glod knew a guitar when he saw one. They were supposed to be shaped like a woman, but this was only the case if you thought women had no legs, a long neck and too many ears.
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.
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.
