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Topic: Musicians Quotes - Famous Quotes
by Musicians and Composers |
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Music can name the unnameable and communicate
the knowable.
Leonard Bernstein
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in
the wind.
Johannes Brahms
Music is an outburst of the soul.
Frederick Delius
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit
the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Johann Sebastian Bach
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their
pictures on silence.
Leopold Stokowski
This will be our response to violence: to make music more intensely,
more beautifully and more devotedly than ever before.
Leonard Bernstein
What is best in music is not to be found within the notes.
Gustav Mahler
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
Gioacchino Rossini
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have
to.
Elvis Presley
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Igor Stravinsky
Any great work of art
revives and readapts time and space,
and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes
you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites
you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Leonard Bernstein
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself.
I want it to sound like the composer.
Leonard Bernstein
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.
Leonard Bernstein
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It
has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom.
The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel
beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to
a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I
simply follow my own feelings.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the non-musician
primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur
status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites
the composer in me.
Aaron Copland
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.'
Aaron Copland
A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if
it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to
scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?
Charles Ives
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would
not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties,
and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
Puccini
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the
duty of the artist.
Robert Schumann
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt
it.
Igor Stravinsky
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people
are taught to have too much respect for music they should be
taught to love it instead.
Igor Stravinsky
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all
to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and
the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful
for the flowers and trees...
Andre Segovia
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes,
and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind
and makes them spiritually drunken.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If
you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
Charlie Parker
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit
certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues.
The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in
my pocket.
Henri Rabaud
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't
have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
Simon Rattle
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him,
people feel there is meaning to life after all.
Helmut Walcha
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh
and go slow.
Oscar Levant
Explaining his way out of a speeding ticket.
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
Benny Green
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses
between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
Artur Schnabel |
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