I am an arrogant and impatient listener but in the case of a few composers a very few when I hear a work I do not like I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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Frank Zappa
Music is. .. A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
Philosophy is the highest music.
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Plato
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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Plato
The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
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Noah Levine
More Quotes By Benjamin Britten
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
I am an arrogant and impatient listener but in the case of a few composers a very few when I hear a work I do not like I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.
