A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
If music be the food of love, play on.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.
Man, there's no boundary line to art!
The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
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