Source: Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist
Classic Music Quotes
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Classic Music Quotes
“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”
“Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.”
“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”
“Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.”
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Source: Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
“Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”
“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.”
“Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.”
“I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.”
“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
“They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”
“Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.”
Source: Six marches
“I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.”
“A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.”
“Without music, life is a journey through a desert.”
Source: Beach Music
“Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?”
“It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.”