Eduard Hanslick Quotes

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

I want to know exactly how the first few measures are going to go, and the rough shape of a movement or the whole piece and its essential character.

There is a basic language of music that I think is important for communicating with other musicians - just the kind of terminology that might make it easier to describe your ideas to the other guys in your band.

You have certain expressions when you write music, a lot of different emotions, a lot of different feelings.

If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.

I really believe in melody.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.

I like the sparkle of the vibraphone.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. You've got to heat it up. So that's what, that's what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

Harmonies are nice.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.