Quotes About Expression

My method of writing is to take the most basic kind of line and improvise on it. After all, I am the child of the culture which created Jazz.

It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.

The Formalist school represents an abortive idealism applied to the question of art. The Formalists show a fast ripening religiousness. They are followers of Saint John. They believe that "In the beginning was the Word." But we believe that in the beginning was the deed. The word followed, as its phonetic shadow.

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.

Lumea este sus?inut? de rostirea cuvintelor.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think the believe every bit of it.

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning… except its own, a meaning in musical terms, not in terms of words.

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another…and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world." —

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

És hiszem Keatsszel, hogy a föld költészete véget mindaddig nem lel, amíg a telet tavasz követi, és van ember, aki észleli. Hiszem, hogy ebbÅ'l a földbÅ'l olyan zene sarjad, amely forrásai természeténél fogva tonális.

The totality of utterances that can be made in a speech community is the language of that speech community.

It goes like thisThe fourth, the fifthThe minor fall, the major liftThe baffled king composing Hallelujah.

Music is the emotional life of most people.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use.

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.