Thoughts and Quotes about Music
By Dimiter Terziev
Concert hall is something like a restaurant for spiritual food. Unfortunately, one often gets
only the list menu, read aloud by the waiter.
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(Tribute to G. Kogan)
Every piece of art is a new answer to the question "To be or not to be".
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The greatestt mistake a music student can make is to try to please his/her teacher.
Paradoxically, the opposite is also true.
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Let's face it! Music is a form of escape into another reality. Do you think you would feel the need
to go further and deeper into Music reality, if you were in perfect terms with
our "normal"  reality?
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If you really think that forte means loud, piano means soft, allegro means fast, adagio means slow etc.;
you would better forget of becoming a musician and go into science.
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One Greek philosopher has said that a student was not like a pot that had to be filled,
but rather like a candle that had to be lighted. Cool, eh?
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Never think of  your audience as ignorant; think of it as innocent.
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(Tribute to Guy Urban)
The studio lesson is sort of shrine where technique, musical expression and artistic vision
are passed on, one-to-one, in a secret rite made up not so much of facts or rules
bur rather of the teacher's personal repertoire of opinions, experiences, subjective convictions
and shots in the dark.
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