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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.
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants read more
A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
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.
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.
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each read more
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's read more
There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
