“The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.” IndividualMusicKeysInvolvedNotesRelatedPassagesImageryRiteRite Of PassageMental Imagery Author:Glenn Gould
“What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.” LyingDesireNightPassionThreeIndividualMusicConditionsVictoryHigherEternalUniqueIdealsInfinitePossessionTongueCheerCrownsPhasesVulgarLove PassionWorthlessness Book:Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays Source: Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays
“Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.” SometimesIndividualMusicSupportActivityPerformancesJazzFlyingBackgroundsArtisticProvidingInnovativeParticipantsRepetitiveTime FliesFlying Free Book:Composing a Life Source: Composing a Life
“Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.” ArtTodayFormIndividualLossMusicGroupsJazzContact Author:Dave Brubeck
“The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much as the public and we were in love with them just the same way. But we were four individuals who eventually recovered our individualities after being submerged in a myth.” WayMindBelieveLongWholeUsedIndividualMusicFourMusic IsDiedIndividualityMythSubmerged Author:John Lennon