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Quotes about music
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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. (Wopat Tom)
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. (Wopat Tom)
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. (Wopat Tom)
Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf. (Wopat Tom)
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I like Beethoven, especially the poems. (Wopat Tom)
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud. (Wopat Tom)
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase. (Wopat Tom)
They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar. (Wopat Tom)
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead. (Wopat Tom)
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. (Wopat Tom)
A good composer does not imitate; he steals. (Wopat Tom)
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. (Wopat Tom)
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. (Wopat Tom)
I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it. (Wopat Tom)
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. (Wopat Tom)
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. (Wopat Tom)
Music is the shorthand of emotion. (Wopat Tom)
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. (Wopat Tom)
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy. (Wopat Tom)
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. (Wopat Tom)
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. (Wopat Tom)
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. (Wopat Tom)
Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities. (Wopat Tom)
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue. (Wopat Tom)
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds! (Wopat Tom)
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