A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.
There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.
Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.
Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.
I can show you in music better than I can tell you in words.
If I can sit down at my keyboard and have a melody that says something that I can't with words, that's a really beautiful thing.
I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.
Piano symbolizes interiority.
With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.
From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.
