I see man as someone into whose hands God has placed a hammer and a violin. Such a person lives a very happy life, he sees that with the hammer he can satisfy his material needs, and he feels that the violin opens up a world beyond language, beyond logic, a world that he cannot […]
Music Quotes
Go to the great concerts where you know that the music is good, and that you ought to like it whether you do or not. Take a music-bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body. I […]
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Feed the musician, and he’s out of tune.
Music is only love looking for words.
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
The chorus part came to me first, and I’d sorta hum that over and over. Then I later figured out that the verses would start low and move up. The first two lines, which rhymed “kiddin’ you” and “didn’t you,” just about knocked me out; and later on when I got to the jugglers and […]
A lifetime of listening to disco is a high price to pay for one’s sexual preference.
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music… I get most joy in life out of music.
