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.'
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
God is its author, and not man; he laid
The key-note of all harmonies; he planned
All read more
God is its author, and not man; he laid
The key-note of all harmonies; he planned
All perfect combinations, and he made
Us so that we could hear and understand.
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long read more
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.rn
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.rn
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, read more
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, 'No.'
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
