What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to th….

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that..

Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one..

They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance..

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic ….

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music..

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music..

Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her heart may know What secret make….

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE ….

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to ….

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words..

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe sam….

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music..

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind..

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind..

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity..

To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better..

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work..

Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on..

How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut your….