Hello, Gallagher Girl --Zack
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.
There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.
When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself.
(In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem Vision of Sin , which included the line Every moment dies a man, every moment one is born. ) If this were true, the population of the world would be at a stand-still. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of death. I would suggest that the next edition of your poem should read: "Every moment dies a man, every moment 1 1 16 is born. " Strictly speaking, the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 1 16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry.
The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.
If you would bring the magic out of your mind - the magic which will transform everything - you must believe.