Listen to their inexhaustible song,
Authors
"She sat listening to the music. It was a symphony of triumph. The notes flowed up, they spoke of rising and they were the rising itself, they were the essence and the form of upward motion, they seemed to embody every human act and thought that had ascent as its motive. It was a sunburst of sound, breaking out of hiding and spreading open. It had the freedom of release and the tension of purpose. It swept space clean, and left nothing but the joy of an unobstructed effort. Only a faint echo within the sounds spoke of that from which the music had escaped, but spoke in laughing astonishment at the discovery that there was no ugliness or pain, and there never had had to be. It was the song of an immense deliverance." -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Performers
"...I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus." -- James Galway "Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail." -- Isaac Stern
Composers
"Liszt has many fingers and few brains." -- Felix Mendelssohn "One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrinafter a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time." -- Gioacchino Rossini "A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples -- that is Brahms." -- Edvard Grieg "There is a different music in old places
in ancient churches
in lonely houses of forgotten families
in ruined once imposing towers
crumbling gently over centuries.
sung by slaves and kings,
by thieves and lovers,
sung by Orpheus and Jesus
by soldiers and women,
sung by cliffs and
the wind."-- Bruce Adolphe, What to Listen for in the World "Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself." -- Erik Satie
Educators
"But, alas, so many men do not dream, and are content to sleep!" -- Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Rhythm, Music, and Education
Something to Think About
"A is A." -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged "To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks." -- Pooh's Little Instruction Book
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