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After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.
There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.
What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
'School of Rock' is fun. Hopefully, I've fleshed it out with a few catchy songs and kept the spirit of the original movie.
What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.
Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them
Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?
I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
I want people to know about all the kinds of music that I write. Some believe I just write film scores, which is not true.
When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea.
Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
I've done entire scores for I don't know how many films and series. I never kept track; I suppose it's up in the hundreds.
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage.
At 50 you now have realized ?Getting old isn't fair? And that it's hard to make a comeback ?When you haven't gone anywhere
In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.
To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.
I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.
I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.
It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.
The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.
The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.
Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.
Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.
Together, we can nurture the talent of the future and bring the empowering force of music and the arts to a new generation.
The plot of my 'Phantom' is pretty much mine. It's based on the Gaston Leroux book - I've taken a lot of liberties with it.
I do feel a commitment to this art form and to my father's teachings, and the older I am getting, the more I am feeling it.
Someday I will have to give an account of myself. How would the Father in Heaven judge me if I followed others and not Him?
Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.
I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.
I was never In a restaurant until after I left home. My mother came from Abruzzi and they're noted for their great cooking.
Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.
There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance.
If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.
To see, one must go beyond the imiagination and for that one must stand absolutely still as though at the center of a leap.
We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star.
Here's hoping that your special day Will be more 'happy ever after' With all the joys of friendship, Love, fun and laughter
I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.