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Thoughts about Music & Musical Instruments
I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. - George Balanchine Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket. - Henri Rabaud The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. - Richard Baker Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything. - Michael Bamberger The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials. - John Fischer If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. - John Cage cd and dvd | musical instruments uk | audio books | music shop uk | music cds online | games movies music | how to play guitar | guitar software | guitar software reviews | learn to play guitar | how to play piano | how to play the violin | how to play saxophone | learn to play organ | thefluteplayer |