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 […]
Groups are out, four piece groups with guitars particularly are finished. The boys won’t go, Mr. Epstein. We know these things. You have a good business in Liverpool. Stick to that. (Decca Records, 1962)
When I was nine, I got “With The Beatles,” and my grandma bought me a honky old drum and an old cymbal. That’s it, isn’t it; what more is there? A drum, a cymbal and “With The Beatles.” Has the world really come on much further?
A decisive moment in the history of Western civilization. (About “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” in the London Times, 1977)
