“My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it”
Iain Banks The Player of Games
Source: The Player of Games
Original: La musica esige spontaneità concedendo all'anima la capacità di esprimersi senza limiti.
Source: prevale.net
“My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it”
Iain Banks The Player of Games
Source: The Player of Games
“Music is the pure expression of one's soul.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) La musica è la pura espressione della propria anima.
Source: prevale.net
“When music is pure expression, the soul sculpts the sound.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Quando la musica è pura espressione, l'anima scolpisce il suono.
Source: prevale.net
“The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.”
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) English composer
National Music (1934) p. 123.
“Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it.”
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Interview by Dermot Stokes in Hot Press (March 1978)
Context: Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.
“For those who create or interpret it, music is the maximum expression of the depth of his soul.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Per chi la crea o la interpreta, la musica è la massima espressione della profondità della sua anima.
Source: prevale.net
Herbert Read (1893–1968) English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art
Source: The Cult of Sincerity (1969), p. 16
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) La musica è lo strumento più antico al mondo, la miglior medicina, l'armonia e la pura espressione di ogni anima.
Source: prevale.net
“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations”
Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 6 : On the Limits of Creativity, p. 115
Context: Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.