Nitzsche Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.
Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
The Dyer's Hand, pt. Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty.