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, ...


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


In this post I will put up links to great music-related websites that I have found to be useful and of value. I will regularly update this post.
Useful Links | yiyiku | November 21, 2009 |
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Carnegie Hall, Chopin, great music websites, history of the piano, internet radio, Library of Congress, magazines, music CDs, music history, public domain music, Useful Links