Quote Of The Day.

"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."
~Thomas Beecham

"Music is the only one of the fine arts in which not only man, but all other animals, have a common property - mice and elephants, spiders and birds."
~Jean Paul Richter

"Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand."
~Carl Orff

“Classical music always had a great influence on me. In fact some of my songs have a classical theme in mind.”
~Billy Joel

“Classical music always had a great influence on me. In fact some of my songs have a classical theme in mind.”
~Billy Joel

"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

"The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees."
~Andres Segovia

"Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform."
~Giuseppe Verdi

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

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."
~Abraham Maslow

"Jazz is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."
~Francoise Sagan

"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

"All the same it is being said everywhere
that I played too softly, or rather, too
delicately for people used to the
piano-pounding of the artists here."
~Fredric Chopin

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

“The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.”
~Andre Segovia

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

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

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

"Pianos are such noble instruments - they're either upright or grand."
~Author Unknown

"My music is best understood by children and animals."
~Igor Stravinsky

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."
~Ludwig Van Beethoven

"Is not music the food of love?"
~Richard Sheridan

"Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker."
~William Green