Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.
I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.
The composer. . . joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.
This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of. . . well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.
When all candels be out, all cats be grey,All thingis are then of one colour, as who sey. And this prouerbe faith, for quenching hot desyre,Foul water as soone as fayre, will quenche hot fyre.
I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He is not to be trusted. He is apt to be always sober and he cannot make a single mistake. His habits are likely to be regular, his existence more mechanical and his head always maintains its supremacy over his heart. Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings.
We'll find out soon enough," Xavier growled. "You don't see too many V Star 250s around here" "How do you know the bike model?" I asked. "I'm a boy. We like engines
It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.