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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May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know read more
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. - Waiting for God.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. - Talking to Myself.
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. - Talking to Myself.
If music be the food of love, play on.
If music be the food of love, play on.
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.
Life is a song. Love is the music.
Life is a song. Love is the music.
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each read more
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
