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I like Beethoven, especially the poems. (Tom Kiana)
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. (Tom Kiana)
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. (Tom Kiana)
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. (Tom Kiana)
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. (Tom Kiana)
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. (Tom Kiana)
A good composer does not imitate; he steals. (Tom Kiana)
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. (Tom Kiana)
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. (Tom Kiana)
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. (Tom Kiana)
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. (Tom Kiana)
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. (Tom Kiana)
Music is the shorthand of emotion. (Tom Kiana)
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. (Tom Kiana)
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. (Tom Kiana)
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. (Tom Kiana)
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. (Tom Kiana)
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. (Tom Kiana)
Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities. (Tom Kiana)
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue. (Tom Kiana)
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds! (Tom Kiana)
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