MLSD

I thought I’d briefly diverge a little from the usual entries I put in here and share some music quotes.

“If this word ‘music’ is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.”
John Cage

“The pause is as important as the note.”
Truman Fisher

“Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven.”
Lawrence Duncan

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
Sergei Rachmaninov

“When I don’t like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely.”
Florent Schmitt

“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”
Bill Cosby

“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

“I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.”
Woody Allen

“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.”
Andres Segovia

“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”
Frank Zappa