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Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life.
Manuel is still today a good friend. The others I see rarely, but with Edgar I phone from time to time.
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.
"We liked it" or "I didn't like it" people say. As if it were nothing higher than to please the people!
He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.
I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.
Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine.
I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.
Each person needs different limits to set him or her free. Finding yours is what practice is all about.
If I were obliged to marry all those with whom I have jested, I should have at least two hundred wives.
Glenn Slater is my lyricist who, of the new young lyricists coming along, is the most exciting, I think.
This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.
David Harrington, who's the violinist and founder of Kronos, is a super open-minded and adventurous guy.
On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.
Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.
[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.
One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'
I was reckless with records. I would pull them out by my fingertips. I would put my hands all over them.
Well, I thought the opening of 'Hatari!' was pretty good. And 'The Pink Panther' wasn't half bad either.
You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.
For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.
You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.
When a musician is conveying that fresh feeling, that's what appeals to me, even more so than the style.
Love is just around the corner Any cozy little corner Love is just around the corner When I'm around you
Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.
He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.
I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.
Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.
Within each of us is a hidden store of energy. Energy we can release to compete in the marathon of life.
For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.
A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.
Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.
Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.
Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery each is no less but more.
I'm not trying to take over the world, but I find it really rewarding to write, and I thrive on learning.
The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.
It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.
I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.
After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.