I'm sure that the liability for doing a tracheotomy would be tremendous. You make one mistake, and it's over. Most doctors won't even do it.
I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent. '
If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.
Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.
Silence. . . is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.
In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.
[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice. "
More than anything, for me, is how people really still do care about you.
I think people are tired of the CSISVU style of lurid and gory crime dramas. I believe there's a craving for lighter shows featuring detective characters who are fun to watch. I think people would welcome that kind of show.
If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.