The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock ’n’ roll. But the guitars made sounds guitars didn’t always make. Symphonic sounds. Sacred sounds. The music du...
Narrator: [introducing Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor] What you will see are the different things that might pass through your mind if you sat in a concert hall listening to this music. At first, you are more or less conscious of the orchestra. ...
Antonio Salieri: [reflecting upon a Mozart score] Astounding! It was actually, it was beyond belief. But they showed no corrections of any kind. Not one. He had simply written down music already finished in his head! Page after page of it as if he we...
I probably won’t play a song the same way tomorrow as I play it today. Only a pitchman says the same thing the same way twice, without varying a word. If music is a language, why don’t people use it with the same subtlety, nuance, and facility as...
Music is all I know.
Music is a reservoir... of sounds.
Music is an outburst of the soul.
Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.
I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.
I've had some of the best and most traumatizing experiences at NBC.
My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
Experience speaks differently than Knowledge
Experience is as to intensity and not as to duration.
Wisdom isn't built on experience; it's built on reason...
I like new challenges and new experiences.
David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience.
Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
