“What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?” ThinkingWritingYearsPlayHappensWaitingPiecesExpressionAnd LoveThirtySincereComposerThirty Years Author:Charles Mingus
“Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.” IfsWayArtCasesWrittenBloodExpressionHarmonyJazzNotesBonesClassicCollectivesPerformersComposerColleaguesNew OrleansImprovisationDissonanceRagtime Author:Russell Lynes
“Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal - harmony, dynamics, orchestration - to the extreme. His music is highly emotional, and at the same time Wagner has extraordinary control over the effect he achieves.” FormAchieveEffectsEmotionalExpressionMusic IsHarmonyExtraordinaryExtremesComposerDynamicsWagnerOrchestration Author:Daniel Barenboim
“What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.” GivingTwoFormExpressionComposerExpressive Author:Camille Saint-Saens
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ThinkingWisdomMotivationalSoundSilenceMusicExpressionListeningQuietMusicianMusic IsMusicalPhilosopherHearingNoiseComposerSilence IsDeep ThoughtListening To MusicClassical MusicJazz MusicMusic LovePlaying MusicGreat MusicComposingExpressiveJazz MusicianI Love MusicInspirational MusicPower Of MusicArt And MusicArt MusicFunny MusicMusic LifeWorld MusicGreat MusicianMusic And LifeFamous MusicianMusic Is LifeMusic EducationSound And MusicMusic Is My LifeComposing MusicMusical LifeJazz And LifePoetry And MusicWords And MusicMusic And LoveHearing MusicMusic And HealingGreatest MusicMusic HealingSounds Of SilenceSpiritual MusicFun MusicFavorite MusicGreatest MusicianMusician LoveCool MusicCreative MusicAcoustic MusicToday's Music Author:Aldous Huxley
“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” IfsTryingFunnyMusicExpressionWordsBotherPianoComposerClassical MusicMusic LovePlaying MusicComposingConductorInspirational MusicClassic MusicComposing Music Author:Gustav Mahler