Quote Of The Day.

"The most fun happens in music when you're not doing it, when the music plays itself. Why is this night different than all other nights? Why is music different from anything else in life? When we let things flow, joy happens."
~Eddie Daniels

"Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies."
~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

"True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a collective public...Thus especially the art of tone, developed with such singular diversity in instrumental music, will realize in the collective artwork its richest potential...For in its isolation music has formed itself an organ capable of the most immeasurable expression- the orchestra."
~Richard Wagner

"Music's the medicine of the mind".
~John A. Logan

"So far as genius can exist in a man who is merely virtuous, Haydn had it. He went as far as the limits that morality sets to the intellect."
~Friedrich Nietzsche

"A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out."
~Ernest Newman

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
~ Victor Hugo

"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."
~Leopold Stokowski

"Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music."
~Isaac Stern

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
~Aldous Huxley

"Study Bach, there you will find everything."
~BRAHMS

"If the King loves music, it is well with the land."
~Mencius

"Le concert, c'est moi."
~Franz Liszt, writing to the Princess Belgiojoso on his launch of a new kind of public concert: the solo recital; quoted by Alfred Brendel in The New York Review of Books (22 Nov 1990)

"If music be the food of love, play on."
~Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'"
~Aaron Copland

"Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music."
~Gioacchino Rossini

"...Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going ..."
~Wes Montgomery

" Music can change the world because it can change people."
~Bono, U2

"Music is a higher revelationthan all wisdom and philosphy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents."
~Ludwig van Beethoven

"For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions."
~Plato

"Music is the silence between the notes."
~Claude Debussy

"I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.'"

~John Cage

"Such is the spell of of your emotional world that it very nearly blinds us to the greatness of your craftsmanship."
~Franz Liszt

"I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me."
~Frédéric Chopin

"Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt."
~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart