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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.
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what read more
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
 That rich celestial music thrilled the air
 From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged
  Eastward and read more 
 That rich celestial music thrilled the air
 From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged
  Eastward and westward, making bright the night. 
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.'
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies read more
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.