Favorite Quotes about Music
“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” — Duke Ellington
“The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.” — Miles Davis
“Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to ‘walk about’ into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?” — Wassily Kandinsky
I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the use of electrical instruments which will make available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard. Photoelectric, film and mechanical mediums for the synthetic production of music will be explored. — John Cage, "The Future of Music: Credo" (1937)
“I had always written in a circular way and through Stockhausen I could see that I didn’t want to ever play again from eight bars to eight bars, because I never end songs: they just keep going on. Through Stockhausen I understood music as a process of elimination and addition.” —Miles Davis
Twittering Machine, by Paul Klee