Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

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.

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 the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to read more

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

If music be the food of love, play on.

If music be the food of love, play on.