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“Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.”

Mean Character Facts Language Music Messages Music Is Understood Creator Contradictory

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”

Thinking Felt Music Havens Understood Bars Inspirational Music Sound Of Music Music Is My Life Musical Life

Author:Igor Stravinsky

“Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.”

Music Careers Masters Understood Miles Phases Muse Tribute

Author:Cassandra Wilson

“If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!”

Ifs Music Understood Jazz

Author:Miles Davis

“When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.”

Love Inspirational War Wisdom Funny Music Understood Appreciated Courtesy No War

Author:Confucius

“The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human failings. They are the only consistent art in the United States which constantly remind us of our limitations while encouraging us to see how far we can actually go. When understood in their more profound implication, they are a corrective, an attempt to draw a line upon man's own limitless assertion.”

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Book:Shadow and Act

Source: Shadow and Act

“Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.”

Stills Fall Next Music Morning Music Is Singing Understood Wake Up Waking

Book:Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg

Source: Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg

“Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.”

Simple Music Musician Understood Photographer Theme Variation Richness

Author:John Szarkowski