Re: is songwriting all about ego?

Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 18:10:15 GMT
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"Music is an outburst of the soul."
--Frederick Delius
"I should be sorry, my lord, if I have
only succeeded in entertaining them;
I wished to make them better."
--George Frideric Handel
"...words seem to me so ambiguous,
so vague, so easily misunderstandable
in comparison with genuine music, which
fills the soul with things a thousand times
better than words."
--Felix Mendelssohn
"Music was born free, and to win
freedom its destiny."
--Ferruccio Busoni
"Where the speech of man stops short,
then the art of music begins."
--Richard Wagner
"A symphony must be like the world,
it must embrace everything."
--Gustav Mahler
"Any subject is good for opera if the composer
feels it so intently he must sing it out."
--Gian Carlo Menotti
"There is nothing more musical than
a sunset."
--Claude Debussy
"There can be no music without ideology."
--Dmitri Shostakovich
"...be it laughter or tears, feverish passion
or religious ecstasy, nothing, in the category
of human feelings, is a stranger to music."
--Paul Dukas
"There is no other human activity that asks for
such a harmonious cooperation of "intellect"
and "soul" as artistic creation and especially,
music."
--Ernst Levy