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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Gayly the troubadour
Touched his guitar.
Gayly the troubadour
Touched his guitar.
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
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.
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connected to it. read more
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief,
Expels diseases, softens every pain,
Subdues the rage of poison, read more
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief,
Expels diseases, softens every pain,
Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: read more
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
