Musical Elegance Quotes

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.

The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective ... Listen to the remarkable expansion of a Mozart melody, to Cherubino's 'Voi che sapete', for instance. You think it is coming to an end, but it goes farther, even farther.

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.

If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.

There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights. Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose, but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

But I love how people who are musical, they know how to dress.