When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
- Aaron Copland
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
- Sidney Lanier
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly… music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
- Andre Segovia
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
- Bryan Ferry
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
- Thomas Carlyle
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
- Leo Tolstoy
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
- Gustav Mahler
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- W. H. Auden
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
- Maya Angelou
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