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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt read more
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'
[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.
[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies read more
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. read more
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.
Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth
Symphony will remain.
Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth
Symphony will remain.
A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants read more
A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.