“Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you.” JoyAbilityMusicDignityAbsolutesBreathsPhrasesSignificancePassagesPrimitiveSimplestEnergeticSqueezingMotifsDignity And Strength Author:Robert Genn
“Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse. Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.” SometimesMomentsPastWhiteMusicWindMusicianHorseInstrumentsMusicalMoodPhrasesRidingSolemnArrivalsWhite HorseSonatasNew ArrivalsWind Instruments Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.” ThinkingMomentsLightMusicHeardSweetMusicalPhrases Book:To the happy few: selected letters of Stendhal [pseud.] Source: To the happy few: selected letters of Stendhal [pseud.]
“Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.” GirlSoundMusicJazzMusicalLipsPhrasesSilverSaying Yes Author:Eddie Condon
“They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.” MusicSingingPraiseJazzStealingPhrases Author:Charles Mingus