"Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live."
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Category: Music
"None but a maid is roused by a love song. And this was a maid, an old maid."
"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs."
"It is at the same time by poetry and through poetry, by and through music, that the soul glimpses the splendors found behind the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings tears to one's eyes, these tears are not the sign of excessive pleasure, they are rather witness to an irritated melancholy, to a condition of nerves, to a nature exiled to imperfection and which would like to seize immediately, on this very earth, a revealed paradise."
"The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes."
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory."
"We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding."
"When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears."
"The first condition for making music is not to make a noise."
"When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!"
"If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other."
"Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round."
"When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. And film is mainly rhythm; it is inhalation and exhalation in continuous sequence. Ever since childhood, music has been my great source of recreation and stimulation, and I often experience a film or play musically."
"The song is ended, but the melody lingers on."
"I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough."
"I asked you to play. If you can't think of anything better, play a chromatic five finger exercise. But spare me your suburban shopgirl trash."
"The music is in minors."
"Hetty [Burney's sister] set down to the harpsichord and sung ... we departed this life of anguish and misery, and rested our wearysouls in the Elysian field--my papa's study--there, freed from the noise and bustle of the world enjoyed the harmony of chattering--and the melody of music!"
"It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents."
"To know whether you are enjoying a piece of music or not you must see whether you find yourself looking at the advertisements of Pears' soap at the end of the libretto."
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