Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
All great art is a form of complaint.
Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can’t hear very well, would that change my question?
Music is a means of rapid transportation.
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
When we separate music from life we get art.
In the dark, all cats are black.
The emotions – love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust – are in the audience.
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.’
The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.
Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
Every something is an echo of nothing.
We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.
There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.
Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
Art’s purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.