Quote Of The Day.

"Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore."
~ Jacques Attali

"Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!"
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!"
~J. K. Rowling

"Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific."
~Aaron Copland

"The high note is not the only thing."
~Domingo, Placido

“So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.”
~Aaron Copland

"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule."
~Samuel Butler

"A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors."
~Colin Wilson

"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language."
~Herbie Hancock

"Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it."
~Henry David Thoreau

"In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead."
~David Amram

"Wagner's music has beautiful moments but some bad quarters of an hour."
~Rossini

"I write music with an exclamation point!"
~Richard Wagner

"Think ten times...Play once"
~Franz Liszt

"Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience."
~George Szell

"There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature."
~Claude Debussy

"Where words fail, music speaks."
~Hans Christian Andersen

“One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.”
~Unknown

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

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
~Plato

"The immortal God of harmony."
~Ludwig van Beethoven, speaking of J. S. Bach

"I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music."
~Kurt Weill

"To play without passion is inexcusable!"
~Ludwig van Beethoven

"The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists."
~Arthur Schnabel

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."
~Gustav Mahler