“Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.” SoulLawLevelsMusicBrokenSingingEarsHarmonyBeastHeavenlyEchoesDisobedienceChoirManiacs Book:Felix Holt: The Radical Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.” MomentsLawGamesForceChanceSecretMusicJazzAppearanceTechniqueOrganizedDisorderObscureConformOrchestraSpursObeyingVirtuosoSpur Of The Moment Author:Wanda Landowska
“An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.” WorldShouldLawArtistUnderstandingMusicAudienceMusicalItalianOperaSwedishEnglish Speaking Author:Edith Wharton
“Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.” IfsWritingDoeLightLawBornMusicKnowingPaintingPerspectiveFineJazzSuitsShadeCreative WritingArt MusicRearranging Author:Truman Capote
“There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.” TryingArtLawPleasureMusicAirSeaSkyWindTheoryElementsTraditionAcademicBoundlessMusic LoveBarrenI Love Music Author:Claude Debussy
“All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.” FeelsLawCan DoNaturalMusicSourceMusicianJazzCommunionJazz MusicNatural LawCommunion With Nature Author:John Coltrane