Philosophy Of Music Gifts

While dreaming, Beethoven sees the future and loses hope,

'There's nothing on.'

"Is it me, or is Jasper Johns a genius?" "Über-genius, Larry. Über!"

"The raw material was all around me: That's how I got started as a sculptor..."

"Yes, you have given 100% to this company. But, over the five years you've worked here that's only 20% a year."

"I condensed my painting to the pure essence of the message. What helps me a lot is the fact that I've got nothing to say at all."

'That was Charlie Parker's 'Ornithology.' I threw in a flat nine in bar 16 and a tritone substitution in bar 22. Who noticed that? Hands up if you noticed!'

Who's torturing a crow? I'm practicing my play. It's art! Which opens your mind to life's important questions. Right. Like what is art? Or do we need little brothers?

Sergei Taneyev

Jackson Pollock makes a mistake: 'Guess I'll have to start over.'

Page from 'How to Draw' by Albrecht Durer

Musical Pondering.

'I loved your argument. When are you planning to perform it again?'

Igor Stravinsky

Oak Tree Painted in 1642

Another musical treatise from the 16th century is discovered.

Major and minor keys

"When I was making money, I made the most money, and now that I'm spiritual I'm the most spiritual."

Jean Philippe Rameau

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"This song is dedicated to all of you who have been having a hard time deciding between the big bang and steady state theories."

How about you? Have you picked a major?

Leos Janacek

"How do you know he was offsides? How do you know anything? Isn’t it possible this is all a dream?!"

"I've been an emerging artist for ten years now..."

Richard Wagner

'I like it.'

'Oh I've seen this before - an encounter with the Goldberg Variations I fear!'

"It's too academic."

The Staff Meeting.

Cross section through the Art Virus.

The Thinker Thinks of Toilet Roll.

Richard Taruskin

Ezra Pound

'Because Elvis is FULL of philosophical insights.'