Introduction to The Golden Man (1980)
Jason Graves (1973) American composer
Exclusive Interview: Composer Jason Graves Discusses Dead Space, F.E.A.R. 3 and Resistance: Burning Skies http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/33744/exclusive-interview-composer-jason-graves-discusses-dead-space-f-e-a-r-3-and-resistance-burning-skies (May 14, 2012)
John Cage (1912–1992) American avant-garde composer
Quote from his letter to Jawlensky, early Februari 1935; as cited in 'The shape of the Future 3: Art' in Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists, by Kay Larson, Penguin 2012, p. unknown
Cage bought one of the small 'Head' paintings of Jawlensky, via his art-agent Galka E. Scheyer who showed Cage some paintings of Jawlensky early 1935, and sold his choice very cheap for 25 dollars; Cage was then 25 years old and strongly inspired by images, as he told Scheyer and wrote Jawlensky
1930s
“Music is my love. And because it is my love, music has become my religion.”
Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938) Indian bansuri player
Music is a Prayer:An interview with Hariprasad Chaurasia by Ian Gottstein
“Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.”
"Weird Al" Yankovic (1959) American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist
Weird Al Yankovic tackles Life's BIG Questions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpZxwRzAD6c&list=PLBEFACC86EF5C5A1B.
“My music cannot possibly have given you one hundredth part of the joy your music has given me.”
Edward German (1862–1936) English musician and composer
Edward Elgar, in a letter to German (1924)
“I have suffered for my music. Now it's your turn.”
Neil Innes (1944–2019) British comic songwriter
Rutland Weekend Television.
“I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Ho costantemente bisogno di musica, di quella musica che scorre nelle vene facendo tremare l'intero pianeta, pura e divina sostanza della mia vita.
Source: prevale.net
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Peter Quince at the Clavier (1915)
Context: Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the self-same sounds On my spirit make a music, too. Music is feeling, then, not sound;
And thus it is that what I feel,
Here in this room, desiring you,
Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk,
Is music.
