“At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the violin came in by itself, I was suddenly filled with gold and fire, and with red so bright I could not remember having seen it on any object.” IfsRememberMusicFireObjectsRedGoldFilledPainterColourConcertsRainbowOrchestraViolin Author:James Elkins
“Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.” FeelingsFormLanguageEmotionMusicVirtueObjectsMusic IsStructureSignificantSymbolsSignificanceImportsSensuous Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.” WorldGivingMeanFeelingsFormMusicEventsObjectsMusic IsSingingInner Feelings Book:Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.” IfsLifeFeelsMayWholeMomentsForgetMusicGreaterOur LivesImagineObjectsListeningMusic IsImagine ThatImprovingSymphonyFinale Author:Alan Watts
“I'm warning you with peace and love I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed, nothing. Peace and love, peace and love.” MusicToo MuchFansObjectsAnd LoveWarningMailPeace And LoveFan Mail Author:Ringo Starr
“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.” FeelingsMusicObjectsMysteriousMotivatedResemblance Author:Jean Cocteau