What is music? This question occupied my mind for hours last night before I fell asleep. The very existence of music is wonderful, I might even say miraculous. Its domain is between thought and phenomena. Like a twilight mediator, it…
Category: Music Quotes
Stravinsky on music
I know that twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Quoted in Music Lovers Quotations, edited by Helen Exley. Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky…
Goethe on music and art
To keep young, everyday read a poem, hear a choice piece of music, view a fine painting, and, if possible, do a good action. Man’s highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances, and as little…
Casals on music
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and I play two preludes and fugues of…
Darwin on Music
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus…
Art changes people
Mrs. Wilkison found this quote from composer, conductor, pianist, and educator Leonard Bernstein: The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change…