|
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. (Tom Kiana)
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Tom Kiana)
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing. (Tom Kiana)
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. (Tom Kiana)
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. (Tom Kiana)
A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it. (Tom Kiana)
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. (Tom Kiana)
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. (Tom Kiana)
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. (Tom Kiana)
Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement. (Tom Kiana)
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music. (Tom Kiana)
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony. (Tom Kiana)
We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us. (Tom Kiana)
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. (Tom Kiana)
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture. (Tom Kiana)
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. (Tom Kiana)
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. (Tom Kiana)
One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music. (Tom Kiana)
Song is the heroics of speech. (Tom Kiana)
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. (Tom Kiana)
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. (Tom Kiana)
|
