“If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.” Quote by Walter Damrosch
“I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?” DoeBookUseMusicalScoreLionsCagesOrchestraConductingDimitri Author:Dimitris Mitropoulos
“God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.” WayShouldSoundMusicalConducting Author:Arturo Toscanini
“The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.” GivingHandsMotivationalPeaceWomenKindnessFlowerRosePhilanthropyFragranceGenerosity And Kindness Author:George William Curtis
“I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.” KnowsMusicalAssParisPianist Author:Frederic Chopin
“Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.” Music IsMusicalPainfulNoiseMovieSciatica Author:Thomas Beecham
“Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.)” ChanceStyleFieldsMaterialsBandMountainMethodMusicalProductionsStudiosBrandsPerformingIndifferenceEncountersCockyStrawberriesJugsIneptitudeChance Encounters Author:Glenn Gould
“If you are able to discover your own keynote or chord and play it over gently to yourself, you will revive as if by magic. Your keynote can be ascertained by listening to some good music. When the note is played it will send a thrill right through you.” IfsPlayAbleMusicMagicListeningNotesOver YouThrillChordsRevive Author:Vera Stanley Alder
“Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.” SoulHandsMusicGraceHarmonyLaysRhythmMost Powerful Book:Republic: ... Source: Republic: ...
“Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.” MindMusicPraiseRaisesConceptionRapture Author:Joseph Addison
“Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good.” WellsEvilMusicPhilosophicalSoothingInvigorating Author:Howard Hanson