“Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen to the obvious sounds, and the subtle soundsin your body, in the room, in the building, and outside. Listen as if you had just landed from a foreign planet and didnt know what was making these sounds. See if you can hear all sounds as music being played just for you. Even in what is called silence there is sound. To hear such subtle sound, the mind must be very quiet.” IfsKnowsMindBodySoundRoomsSilenceBuildingPlanetsListeningQuietDegreesMusic IsEarsObviousHearingYour BodyGiantsSubtleDishesJust ListenRadarBeing Played Author:Jan Chozen Bays
“To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.” WritingKindBuildingWallBalanceMusic IsLogicMiracleRaisesProportionInternalsConstructionLaddersInnateScaffoldingUnder Construction Author:Arthur Honegger
“Music is my life. The last job I had, I was a bricklayer's apprentice. And I was happy with that job, too, because it was something that made me feel good. To build a wall for the side of a building felt really good to me.” FeelsMadeJobsLastsFeltSidesBuildingWallMusic IsFeel GoodApprenticeMusic Is My LifeBricklayers Author:Mark Wahlberg
“Music is mere tuning a song with words; to some degree you have a beautiful endeavor of cosigning God's blank checks and you're actually co-creating. You're certainly not the creator with the capital C, but you're embarking on an endeavor, you're using the building blocks that have been given to you by the author of time and space.” Has BeensBeautifulSongGivenSpaceBuildingDegreesCreatingMusic IsMereCreatorChecksBlockEndeavorBlankTime And SpaceTuningBuilding BlocksEmbarkingBlank Check Author:Jon Foreman
“We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical is not - the reference is wrong, because classical on one hand refers to one period in musical history, which is Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, which is a fine period in musical history, but it was a while ago.On the other hand, it sort of alludes to some kind of "class," which A, is not true; B, is kind of detrimental to the whole idea. Because the point is that this music is available and it's actually relatively reasonably priced.” KindIdeasWholeHandsClassBuildingFinePeriodsMusic IsBuiltInstrumentsMusicalAvailableTraditionalHallsConcertsDetrimentalBeing Played Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen
“My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good, when work is that good, you have to appreciate every aspect of it. It's the architecture of it, it's like looking at a Frank Lloyd Wright building or a Lautner building, it's master craftsmanship. Every aspect of it intertwines in a perfectly harmonious way. That's what architecture is at its best and the architecture of my father's music is on that level.” WayFatherLevelsGenerationsBuildingMastersDadMusic IsAspectAppreciateMy DadArchitectureFrankHarmoniousCraftsmanship Author:Sean Lennon
“Music is my juice. I like building gear and making records.” RecordsBuildingMusic IsJuiceGears Author:Matt Snell
“I think the church should strive to give parishioners good music. Music is as necessary for worship as a building with a beautiful altar, artwork, and stained-glass windows. Together they create an environment conducive to worship and contemplation. We are not in church for entertainment, but to worship.” ThinkingGivingTogetherBeautifulChurchEnvironmentBuildingWorshipMusic IsWindowStriveContemplation Author:Dave Brubeck