Acquainted Quote by Leo Ornstein

In our profession someone can be very brilliant and acquire total technical mastery. Yet in the last resort, the only thing that really counts…

— Herbert von Karajan

He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.

— Vikram Sarabhai

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

— A. R. Rahman

He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and…

— Charles Dickens

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him…

— Henri Matisse

I prefer to hear an artist's work and what they can do, so as far as I'm concerned, I'd get a lot more out…

— Jimmy Page

Now there is music from which a man can learn something.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world…

— Rudolf Steiner

Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within,…

— Iannis Xenakis

Music gives the inspiring, yet intangible beauty, a path of expression, a voice.

— Ellis Hadlock

Music has unique ways of speaking to the soul.

— Mack Wilberg