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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.
Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.
Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to read more
When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.
[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly read more
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.