There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.
To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.
Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
I've always said that music is like literature.