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“You know what you do when you shit singing is the same thing only up!”
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
“When people hear good music it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.”
“Light quirks of music broken and uneven make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.”
“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.”
“Richard Wagner a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.”
“One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.”
“He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.”
“Opera purges men of those hesitations and worries which make it difficult for them to acknowledge their importance to themselves. A good performance of an opera that is provides a language for us...”
“No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is...”
“A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.”
“Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony but organically I am incapable of a tune.”
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
“Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra not choreography to the audience.”
“For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire the second half trimming it.”
“How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.”
“Opera in English is in the main just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.”
“Music is only sound expressing certain patterns so to what extent is that sound architecture and to what extent theatre?”
“A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.”
“Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradic...”
