The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
Music Quotes
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.
Swans sing before they die; ’tweren’t a bad thing – Should certain persons die before they sing.
My parents occupied the bedroom directly above mine while I was growing up. Luckily they were heavy sleepers, and loud music late at night didn’t seem to bother them much – unless, of course, it was the high-pitched guitar or vocal work of Neil Young. On such occasions, my mother would trudge downstairs, rap at […]
He (Richard Wagner) was the first to use music as a means of influencing, of entrancing, of intoxicating, of conquering. To be sure, all musicians direct their attention to the ‘world’ – to connois- seurs, to a community great or small, to the nation. Even before Wagner a few composers had felt impelled to create […]
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
I saw the best musicians of my generation maybe not the best but plenty good believe me – splattering their illegible scrawls on the fatal last pages of criminally exploitative recording contracts beneath the gaze of predatory mobbed up executives regarding with displeasure the sheepish grin of their own helpless attorney who deserted their beloved […]
Music sweeps by me as a messenger – Carrying a message that is not for me.
