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Music Quotes
Marcel Marceau
Music and silence … combine strongly because music is done
with silence, and silence is full of music.
Virgil Thomson
Musicians … own music because music owns them.
Bruce Springsteen
Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around
me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
Jacques Barzun
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes
and purposes and emotions.
Pierre Boulez
The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.
It is not a vessel into which the composer distills his soul drop
by drop, but a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of
new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal.
Aaron Copland
There is something about music that keeps its distance even at
the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside
and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs
us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet
in some strange way we never lose control.
Ned Rorem
To see itself through, music must have idea or magic…. Music
with neither dies young though rich.
Joshua Logan
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
Leonard Bernstein
Music … can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
Virgil Thomson
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever
deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not
going to let you down.
Mitch Miller
Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad. Time 23 Feb 50
Andrés Segovia
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all
to study the music profoundly. Because the music is like the ocean,
and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful
for the flowers and trees, or the contrary.
Leopold Stokowski
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their
pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the
silence.
Wanda Landowska
I never practice; I always play.
Bernadette Peters
Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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