Function Quote by Artur Schnabel Download Open image “It is not music's function to express rational necessities.” — Artur Schnabel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Function Music Rational
Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“For I consider that music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind,… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Music is nothing but sound, and there is no place for value judgement among various sounds. — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor… — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
I dont think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, there is where the artistry lies!! — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
“The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.” — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
“I only know two kinds of audiences - one coughing, and one not coughing.” — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range. — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the… — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that… — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes. — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
Have I a secret about playing the piano? It's a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make myself comfortable… — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
I am the only person here who is enjoying this, and I get the money; they pay and have to suffer. — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
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