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“Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty.”
“How strange it would now like speaking without a voice. Is that what music is then, a ventriloquist with his doll ?”
“the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.”
“A harsh crack followed the rumble of thunder, a lightning strike. With that, the other musicians began to play, bringing in the tinkling sounds of light rain, the deeper thrum of thicker droplets. ...”
“My mind is curiously alert; it's as though my skull had a thousand mirrors inside it. My nerves are taut, vibrant! the notes are like glass balls dancing on a million jets of water. I've never been...”
“The truth is that there comes a time When we can mourn no more over music That is so much motionless sound”
“Don't mind us, we're just spilling our guts. If this is love, I don'twant to be hanging by the neck in front of an audience of Death.”
“Playing in an orchestra is completely different to playing on my own.Sometimes I played, sometimes listened; instead of waiting my turn, I sometimes interrupted another player, sometimes I argued, ...”
“The Phantom is not famous for forgiveness.”
“Behind every wall and every mirror and every vent, I hear sounds: breathing, rustling, footsteps, and murmurs. I try to tell myself its just mice making their nests behind the barriers, but since w...”
“Record sales don't matter when the people who bought the records are dead and gone.”
“The undistracted experience of affects of just about any sort, when free of practical consequences, appears to have intrinsic appeal for many of us.”
“I sing, no matter who is listening coz it is my natural way of expression.”
“Deep emotional response to music typically arises as a product of the most intense musical perception. It is generally in virtue of the recognition of emotions expressed in music, or of the emotion...”
“What we seem to perceive influences what we feel, and what we feel influences what we say we perceive”
“That was how we wanted to play, majestic and chaotic.”
“Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.”
“Will you still be there,,,,,,,, a gorgeous touching emotional soundtrack that I started working on ..I love this great atmosphere in my studio ..my piano is crying from the sweetness of the chords ...”
“Without Puccini, there is no opera; without opera, the world is an even drearier place than the evening news would have us think.”
“In its own unique and indefinable manner, music indirectly communicates the joys of life along with the pains and terrors overwhelming humanity. The universal language of music quantities the human...”
