Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
Interpretation
Music is a vessel that conveys emotions that are often found in silence.
This quote suggests that music serves as a medium through which we can experience complex emotions and thoughts that are otherwise unexpressed or difficult to articulate. The 'cup' symbolizes how music can contain and channel the profound and often silent feelings that we harbor within ourselves, allowing us to explore deeper aspects of our existence.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of the arts, one might use this quote to illustrate how music enriches our lives.
The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.
To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician would be the point at which one is innocent at will. At that point the relationship between music and the musician is direct and reliable._x000D_ The relationship with music is always mysterious: when it works, you can never tell. You can never guarantee when it's going to work. You can only to put yourself in a place where it's more likely to happen.
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.
It's much more important to write than to be written about.
The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.
A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
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