Beauty Quote by John Tilbury

There are artists who delight listeners with their wild and daring individuality; there are others who uncover the written score with reverence. There are…

— Stephen Hough

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

— Joanna Newsom

I'm a music storyteller and collaborator. I hear character, location, and story as music. For me a score is there to both heighten the…

— David Raiklen

“With a musical work, no matter how intellectual or dramatic its foundation, its test ever will be its value as pure music.”

— Gustav Kobbé

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

A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening to music…

— David Byrne

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling…

— Honore de Balzac

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

— Lillian Hellman

“Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and…

— Christoph Wolff

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too…

— Alejandro Amenabar

The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.

— Paul Lansky

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

— Shinichi Suzuki