“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
“I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.” PeopleBeautifulIndividualInterestWorkWalksMusicPowerConfidenceSelf LoveConclusionLove YourselfSolitaryHeadphones Author:Jason Mraz
“Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group context, with true democracy in action.” ActionIndividualMusicDemocracyGroupsExpressionIntegrityFlowJazzMusicalResilienceEleganceImprovisationSubtletyNuanceTrue DemocracyIndividual ExpressionSyncopation Author:Greg Thomas
“The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else. You have a model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you. But then you start playing for yourself. Show them that you're an individual. And I can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of one hand.” I CanShowsHandsTodayCoursesIndividualMusicTeacherTroubleMusicianModelsJazzFingersCopycats Author:Lester Young
“We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.” PeopleWayMindHumansDifferentPlayLiteratureIndividualUnderstandingChangeHuman BeingsMusicCasesUniqueCapacityIndividualityEvolveDifferent PeoplesPonderingShoutingUnique Individuals Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays