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A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Classical music isn’t the kind that we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Jazz came to America 300 years ago in chains.
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
Music is almost a miracle, for it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
Music touches places beyond our touching.
The devil does not stay where music is.
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides!
Chamber music – a conversation among friends.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean thing.
