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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
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.'
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 is a higher revelation than philosophy.
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth
Symphony will remain.
Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth
Symphony will remain.
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh, as he sits by the river,
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Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh, as he sits by the river,
Making a poet out of a man.
The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain--
For the reed that grows never more again
As a reed with the reeds of the river.
Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare.
Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare.
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
