The big, strong, tough guy goes to class, and he keeps getting tapped by the skinny, technical guy. It begins to change him. It makes him humble. That's what Jiu Jitsu does to you. It makes you humble.
I try to conceal art with art.
Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.
We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.
When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.
Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source.
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. . . . It is remarkable that philologists who are capable of carrying accuracy to the extremes in the case of words are as credulous as babies when it comes to "images," and yet an image is so full of information that ten thousands words would not add up to it.
Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Who is so firm that can't be seduced?