| Music & Art A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. Orson Welles (21) A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. Benny Green (14) All works of art should begin at the end. Edgar Allan Poe (12) Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life. Vincent Van Gogh (12) Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it. Alfred Hitchcock (13) Every artist was once an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson (9) If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision, wherever it takes him. John F. Kennedy (27) If music be the food of love; play on. William Shakespeare (11) If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. Thomas Carlyle (18) Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul. Paul Whiteman. (10) Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. John Phillip Sousa (20) Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Ludwig Van Beethovan (14) Music is the shorthand of emotion. Count Leo Tolstoy (9) Music makes the difference. (4) True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today. George Gershwin (25) The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. Pablo Picasso (35) Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes
the mind and gives it rest. Heals the heart and makes it whole,
Flows from heaven to the soul. (26) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work. Emile Zola (17) To possess ideas is to gather flowers. To think is to weave them into garlands. Greek Proverb (17) We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams…yet we are the movers and shakers of the world forever, it seems. Arthur O’Shaughnessy. (26) We have art to save ourselves from the truth. Neitzsche (10) Without music, life is a journey through a desert. (9) Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche (9)
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