This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.
Music Quotes
I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
That’s it! That’s the noise I want to make! (statement when he saw Pete Seeger on TV playing banjo)
In experiments, the plants grew lush foliage and large roots when baroque music was played to them, and they leaned toward the music as if toward the sun.
In music’s sweet harmony, I have all the proof I need of God.
A (film) musician is like a mortician. He can’t bring a body to life, but he can make it look better.
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
Composers shouldn’t think too much it interferes with their plagiarism.
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, ‘Is there a meaning to music?’ My answer would be, ‘Yes.’ And ‘Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?’ My answer to that would be, ‘No.’
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.
