-This is from a coffee mug that I have. I have no idea who wrote it. Just don't give me any credit for it.
MUSIC
After silence,
that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and
thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with
the heart and feels with the brain. Music
is a means of giving form to our inner feelings without attaching them
to events or objects in the world. What gives
music its universal appeal is the very fact that it is at the same time
the most subtile and intangible and the most primitive of all arts...it
can make a dog howl and silence a crying baby. 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.
Too many people are trying to justify the precision
with which organized musical sound is produced rather than the energy with
which it is manipulated. By concentrating
on precision, one arrives at technique; but by concentrating on technique
one does not arrive at precision. Melody is
the golden thread running through the maze of tones by which the ear is
guided and the heart reached. People compose
for many reasons: to become immortal; because the piano happens to be open:
because they want to become a millionaire: because of the praise of friends:
because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes: for no reason whatsoever.
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned
by forgetting ideas which one has no time to write down. The
public today must pay its debt to the great composers of the past by supporting
the living creations of the present. Music
hath charms to soothe the savage breast, soften rocks, or bend a knotted
oak. Good musicians execute their music. But
bad ones murder it. Of all the arts music
is practiced most. There should be music in
every house - except the one next door. The
more you love music, the more music you love. Hug
a musician, they never get to dance.
-This is from a coffee mug that I have. I have no idea who wrote it. Just don't give me any credit for it.
LINKS
| rocktoons.com |
| Cartoon pictures
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