"A human being is a part of the whole called by us "the universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical illusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening the circle of understanding and compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein
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Perhaps the first thing to remember is that air is elastic. Imagine what happens when you bang two things together, a ruler on a table, for instance...Now a table is elastic,more elastic than, say, a block of concrete...and the force of the ruler hitting it moves the table-top; it moves only very slightly, but it does move...and the air around the table receives a jolt...a fraction of a second later, the air jostles our ear drums and we hear the sound. All you need then to make sound is something that vibrates.You can't shake your hands fast enough, but a hummingbird's wings...
Geoffrey Russell-Smith
The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.
Jerome Bruner
Children learn to talk by experimenting and listening; they can learn to make music by experimenting and listening,unless we stop them! Place children in surroundings that are full of "invitations to learn," provide them with encouraging and sympathetic attitudes from adults, as well as knowledge, and amazing things can happen--especially to the sensory perceptions that are central to the arts...do we have the courage to embark with them on what are frequently unknown seas?
Emma D. Sheehy
...we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects...and that the source of cultural creativity is the consciousness that springs from social cooperation and loving interaction...the majority of us live far below our potential, because of the oppressive nature of most societies.
John Blacking
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley
...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.
Anthony Braxton
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
Arthur Honegger
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
Charles Baudelaire
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Mark Twain
Rejection of the new has always existed....One of the most famous examples of disdain for new music was the violent reaction to Wagner's compositions by the leading classicists of his day. There is certainly no implication here that we must like everything we hear....All this is very closely related to living and working with children, for their explorations in the discovery of the world of sound can irritate or please according as we "hear" the possibilities for extending their interest by the opportunities they present to us.
Emma D. Sheehy
All the sounds on the earth are like music.
Oscar Hammerstein
Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.
Alfred Tennyson
Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.
John Dewey
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Noel Coward
Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.
Derek Bailey
Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.
Derek Bailey
...improvisation on the piano was a necessity of his life. Every journey that takes him away from the instrument for some time excites a homesickness for his piano, and when he returns he longingly caresses the keys to ease himself of the burden of the tone experiences that have mounted up in him, giving them utterance in improvisations.
Alexander Moskowski (reporting what Albert Einstein told him in 1919)
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