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I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.
Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.
It might be fun to have audience members wander up the ramps as well, so they can listen from different vantage points.
I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.
I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.
The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
Happy Anniversary, my darling Here's to a day that's filled with fun While we joyously remember When us two became a one
Proud parents to two children Grandparents to five more Who visit the "Harper Bakery" It's Gran's cooking they all adore
Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.
The Cycle of True Love: First I see and think I love, then I say I know I love, today and forever more I decide to love.
I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.
Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.
How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.
I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.
We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness
What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus; What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Our world exists onlythrough our perception of it. Change our perception of our world and we change the world -- for us.
Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.
What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
What I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80's music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50's and 60's.
In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.
I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you
There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.
I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.
Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
You've had a long working life As everyone knows You can now do nothing at all And then have a doze Enjoy Your Retirement
Anarchy! Revolution, Justice, Screaming For Solutions, Forcing Changes, Risk, and Danger, Making Noise and Making Pleas!.
Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.
I know the action in the street is excitin' But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’ I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’.
Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.
It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.
Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.
That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.
Too many young people are being taught to give up their dreams before they have any experience attempting to pursue them.
We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.
When you can make a good, strong musical connection with people, that's always there. That's not often that that happens.
There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.