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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.
Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief,
Expels diseases, softens every pain,
Subdues the rage of poison, read more
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief,
Expels diseases, softens every pain,
Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.
You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
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.
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.
When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
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.'
