Body Language

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
~ George Szell ~

Feet: Your Sixth Sense

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
~ John Philip Sousa ~

Not Exactly Fort Knox

Music is the key to the female heart.
~ Johann G. Seume ~

Marvellous Mundane Music

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
~ Gioacchino Antonio Rossini ~

Masochism

Music should never be harmless.
~ Robbie Robertson ~

The Real Thing

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
~ Bonnie Raitt ~

Can you?

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
~ Zimbabwe Proverb ~

More Than the End Result

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
~ Bill Nye, as quoted in Mark Twain's autobiography ~

A Vehicle Called Music

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.
~ Theodore Mungers ~