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Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips read more
Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
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.
Music is love in search of a word.
Music is love in search of a word.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Gayly the troubadour
Touched his guitar.
Gayly the troubadour
Touched his guitar.
And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note
which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than read more
And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note
which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument;
for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or
proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the
spheres.
You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.