A melody is not merely something you can hum |
Don't ever let him near a microphone. |
Here were the tart herbs of plain American speech, the pasture, without the flowers of elocution... the clean rhythms... the irony and the homespun tenderness that, in a fine perforation, reached a sustained exaltation. |
I heard these guys play at St. George earlier this year, and they mentioned they do educational programs, |
I'm really glad I came. I feel a lot more connected now. |
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong. |
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. |
Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes |
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. |
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.' |
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. |
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. |
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. |
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. |
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. |