First you master your instrument. Then you master the music. Then you forget about all the shit you just learned and just play.
Music Quotes
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.)
Music’s golden tongue Flatter’d to tears this aged man and poor.
Does music make plants grow, or are there among the plants some that are musical?
Sing the wandering soul back home.
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
I remember from my youth the thrill of unpacking new stereo equipment, how there was always the promise of New and Better Sound with this one, and the unspoken hope that somehow this would help you get a date in the sack, too. (Men seem to believe that about anything they can plug in, just […]
