Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger..
The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonder….
It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible..
I think the kazoo and chocolate-chip cookies have a lot in common. All you need is a mouth to appreciate either one..
We JAH people can make it work..
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the ….
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable..
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes….
Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it ….
Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading..
Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top Too much c….
It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best fri….
Music sets up ladders, it makes us invisible, it sets us apart, it lets us escape; but from the visible there is no escape..
The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly r….
You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' An….
Clouds float in the same pattern only once..
It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me..
... I'm not conscious of the speed ... it's not my motive ... my motive is displaying a voice through the fingerboard ... it can get to the point whe….
Music gives a soul to the universe..
There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they ….
Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it..