People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
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