The fantasies of music are governed by art, mine by chance.
Music Quotes
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.
In music the ear obeys only nature. It takes account of neither measure nor range. Instinct alone leads it.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
First you master your instrument. Then you master the music. Then you forget about all the shit you just learned and just play.
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn’t have to go to an osteopath, then there’s something wrong.
Alcibiades was a man who well understood good living: he specifically banished music from his table so that it should not interfere with the conversation, justifying this with the reason which Plato ascribes to him, that it is the practice of commonplace men to invite musicians and singers to their feasts since they lack that […]
I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it’s the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes.
You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel. (To George Gershwin, on refusing him as a pupil.)
The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
