Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.
But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest.
I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do that through literature and through art and music to give ourselves a repertoire of emotional experiences.
I feel like all this stuff that we make: books and art and music, all of it. There's this energy that circles the world that wants to be made manifest, and it is just looking for someone to come through. And it's dying for you to make it. And if you don't do it, it will go find somebody else.
See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to think differently in order to do it. He's got to play above what he knows - far above it. I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.
There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.
The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place for it and it comes from insecurity.
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