“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.”
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.