It must be born with a man to be contented to take up with little things. Women have a great advantage that they may take up with little things, without disgracing themselves: a man cannot, except with fiddling. Had I learned to fiddle I should have done nothing else.
Music Quotes
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
Music, the mosaic of the air.
I’d bet on George (Gershwin) any time in a hundred yard dash to the piano.
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It’s like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won’t let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you’re allowed to sleep. It’s always in the middle of the bloody night, or when you’re half-awake […]
The more your music practice becomes regular, the more real it feels and the more it pays off. Music itself depends on regularly recurring cycles, on periodicity, such as the vibrations of strings and reeds. Consider how the daily rotation of the earth, the monthly orbit of the moon, and their yearly orbit of the […]
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.
