Feb 22 2010
"After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own." - Oscar Wilde
Yiyi's thoughts: beautiful words. After hearing Chopin, one feels as if one has heard that beautiful melody before; it sounds so familiar yet distant, ...
This post is a continuation from my earlier post "My Favorite Music Quotes" - that page is getting too long, so I am starting a new page for the new year.
Jan 22 2010
"I learned to read notes before I learned to read letters. There were notes in a row on a piece of paper. I ...
Music Quotes | yiyiku | January 1, 2010 |
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Alban Berg, Aleksander Slobodyanik, Alicia de Larrocha, Aristotle, Claudio Arrau, famous pianists, Gina Bachauer, Igor Stravinsky, Jose Iturbi, Ken Noda, Leonard Bernstein, Lili Kraus, Murray Perahia, music quotes, piano quotes, Rudolf Serkin, Vladimir Horowitz


I often come across great quotes about music and composers while reading or browsing the internet for music related articles and research. In this post I will endeavor to post a new quote everyday, one that moves me and makes me say to myself “so true”.
Music Quotes | yiyiku | December 14, 2009 |
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Aaron Copland, Albert Einstein, Antonin Dvorak, Artur Rubinstein, Artur Schnabel, Arturo Benedetti Michelangelli, Beethoven, Benjamin Britten, Brahms, Charles Ives, Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, Frank Zappa, George Gershwin, Gustav Mahler, Henri Rabaud, Henry Threadgill, Joe Pass, Lewis Mumford, Louis-Hector Berlioz, Miles Davis, Mozart, music quotes, Orlando Gibbons, Pablo Casals, Paul Hindemith, Plato, Ray Charles, Robert Schumann, Sergei Rachmaninov, Victor Hugo, Virgil Thomson, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Walter Pater
This post is a subcategory of my earlier post “Music Quotes I love”. These quotes may not have particularly deep and soulful meanings, but they are funny!
Music Quotes | yiyiku | November 30, 2009 |
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Ed Gardner, Ernest Newman, Frank McKinney, funny quotes, Gioacchino Rossini, Glenn Gould, Gustav Mahler, Igor Stravinsky, Jascha Heifetz, Leonard Bernstein, Sir Thomas Beecham, Woody Allen