Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
Interpretation
Music is a vessel that conveys emotions that are often found in silence.
This quote suggests that music serves as a medium through which we can experience complex emotions and thoughts that are otherwise unexpressed or difficult to articulate. The 'cup' symbolizes how music can contain and channel the profound and often silent feelings that we harbor within ourselves, allowing us to explore deeper aspects of our existence.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of the arts, one might use this quote to illustrate how music enriches our lives.
The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.
To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician would be the point at which one is innocent at will. At that point the relationship between music and the musician is direct and reliable._x000D_ The relationship with music is always mysterious: when it works, you can never tell. You can never guarantee when it's going to work. You can only to put yourself in a place where it's more likely to happen.
Superman is going to live forever. They'll be reading Superman in the next century when you and I are gone. I felt, in that respect, I was doing the same thing. I wanted to be known. I wasn't going to sell a comic that was going to die quickly.
Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.
I try to represent specific experiences of specific characters, and that's all I want to try to do. I don't ever try to think about representing a culture, because its impossible, and someone will fault you. And it just doesn't interest me.
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
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