Wednesday 6 April 2011

Ambiguity.

I heard somebody quote Mahler on my car radio today:

‘If I knew how to express myself with words, I wouldn’t bother to write music.’

Was he bemoaning his lack of facility with words, or claiming that music is a deeper, more complete, or more versatile means of expression? I’d love to ask him.

2 comments:

Anthropomorphica said...

I'd say the latter, but then I suffer the same fate of being hopeless with words.

JJ said...

No you're not. You write some nice stuff on your blog. And I missed an 'of' in this post.