“I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com
“Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com
“Cozie and James also noticed my musical nature when I was still an infant. They said I was fixated on jukeboxes. I'd toddle over and point to one particular song -- "Honky Tonk Train Blues" by Meade Lux Lewis, a hot boogie-woogie instrumental. I'd holler until someone put a nickel in the box and pla…”— Etta James, amazon.com
“I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.”— Leonard Bernstein, amazon.com
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com
“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com
“What some people don’t seem to understand is that sometimes only the sad songs will do.”— David Denny, narrativemagazine.com
“I got rhythm I got music I got my man/girl Who could ask for anything more?”— George Gershwin, open.spotify.com
“Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.”— George Gershwin, en.wikiquote.org
“The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.”— George Gershwin, en.wikiquote.org
“My people are American, my time is today…music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the times.”— George Gershwin, en.wikiquote.org
“What did the composer say about the music at the Super Bowl? It's in half time.”— poohbacca, reddit.com
“I would love to do much more singing, it’s just one of those things where I can’t quite describe what it feels like when you’re standing in front of a forty piece orchestra and there’s nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It’s like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it.”— Kevin Spacey, pbs.org
“Witch house had some clunky moments, but the nascent genre’s ability to convey despair, hopelessness, and uncertainty at what the future will hold was dead-on. Maybe the genre just needed more time to grow, and the currently en vogue collective embrace of nihilism to thrive.”— Sam Hockley-Smith, vulture.com