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“I have just awoken, having dreamed of music. The final chord fades away within me while I try to focus on individuals amid the living, breathing mass packed into this vast waiting room, in this mix...”
“All of our music is made up of twelve notes and their harmonies. That’s it. Twelve notes and twenty-six letters. The goal of us as musicians is to find that perfect combination to open up the lock ...”
“There’s magic and metaphors in music superior to any other art form. An exquisite alchemy is involved in mixing pieces of your self and soul into the precisely perfect blend of harmonies, melodies,...”
“I like music,' she said slowly, 'because when I hear it, I...I lose myself within myself if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once.”
“Where does music go when it’s not playing?—she asked herself. And disarmed she would answer: May they make a harp out of my nerves when I die.”
“I decided that in order to become a big famous rock star, I would need to write my very own songs instead of wasting my time learning other peoples music too much. It may act as an obstruction in d...”
“Music is faithful…”
“I wanted to see everything. It was around the time I acquired language, or even before that time, when something happened that changed my relationship to the spin of the world. My concept of langua...”
“Music had always had the ability to help ease my suffering. I sang a great deal at home. I sang to myself and to Lord Imery. Sometimes, I played the harp to accompany myself. Learning such a gracef...”
“Music is a complete evocation – like a smell. It can bring an entire memory and feeling back to you in a rush. Much more complete than even a photograph. You allow yourself a certain visual distanc...”
“Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!”
“Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement.”
“Beethoven can write music thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.”
“The public doesn't want new music the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.”
“I have sat through an Italian opera til for sheer pain and inexplicable anguish I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged...”
“Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear which remains unsatisfied and even uneasy until it hears something better.”
“Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear which remains unsatisfied and even uneasy until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends there ar...”
“Don't play what's there play what's not there.”
“Handel was a man of the world but Bach was a world of a man.”
“It is the best of all trades to make songs and the second best to sing them.”
