Quotes about music
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca“There are two things that don't have to mean anything in order to give us deep pleasure. One is music and the other is laughter.”
Immanuel Kant“I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments that will make available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard.”
John Cage“...jazz is not an intellectual process. You use your intellect to take a part of the materials and learn to understand them and learn to work with them, but actually it takes years and years and years of playing to develop the facility so that you can forget all of that just relax and just play...”
Bill Evans, 1970“...you have to be very careful to have an aesthetic guiding force if you allow yourself this kind of the freedom and also be very selective about the feelings that you want to express...”
Bill Evans about a vanguard jazz music, 1970