“Music is an art and a day full of meaning”

—  10racksss

Last update April 9, 2022. History

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“Into the day as by dream I swim to the music of nourished meaning.”

Dejan Stojanovic book Circling: 1978-1987

“Spring Music,” 34
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John Varley photo

“Just because Beethoven doesn’t sound like currently popular art doesn’t mean his music is worthless.”

John Varley (1947) American science fiction author

"The Phantom of Kansas" (1976), The World Treasury of Science Fiction (ed. David Hartwell), p. 375

“On a Clear Day: Art work that is completely abstract - free from any expression of the environment is like music and can be responded to in the same way. Our response to line and tone and color is the same as our response to sounds... It holds meaning for us that is beyond expression in words.
These prints [title, 'On a Clear Day'] express innocence of mind. If you can go with them and hold your mind as empty and tranquil as they are and recognize your feelings at the same time you will realize your full response to this work.”

Agnes Martin (1912–2004) American artist

a passage Martin wrote in 1975 'On a Clear Day', 15 Oct. 1975. Printed in Agnes Martin, eds. Morris and Bell, p. 124
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Karl Jaspers photo

“In old days the plastic arts, music, and poesy were so germane to man in his totality that his Transcendence plainly manifest in them. … What is to-day obvious to all is a decay in the essence of art. … the opposition to man's true nature as man.”

Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) German psychiatrist and philosopher

Man in the Modern Age (1933)

Richard Wagner photo

“The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.”

Richard Wagner book Opera and Drama

Opera and Drama (1851)

Marcel Marceau photo

“Music and silence… combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.”

Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) French mime and actor

US News & World R eport (23 February 1987)

George Bernard Shaw photo

“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Leonard Bernstein photo

“Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning… except its own.”

Leonard Bernstein book The Joy of Music

Source: The Joy of Music

E.M. Forster photo

“Music is the deepest of the arts and deep beneath the arts.”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

Harvard University Department of Music, Music and Criticism, A Symposium (May 1947; published 1948, p. 11 https://archive.org/details/musiccriticismsy00symp/page/10)

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