We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.
To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
The composer. . . joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
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.
I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.
Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.
I could tell you a tale about something,' Miach offered, rubbing her hand absently. 'If you like. ' She frowned thoughtfully. 'What sort of something?' 'Something that would soothe you,' he promised. 'I'm sure there would be swords involved. Bloodshed. Peril. That kind of thing.
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.