My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to read more

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh, as he sits by the river,
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Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh, as he sits by the river,
Making a poet out of a man.
The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain--
For the reed that grows never more again
As a reed with the reeds of the river.

Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.

[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

If music and sweet poetry agree.

If music and sweet poetry agree.

Gayly the troubadour
Touched his guitar.

Gayly the troubadour
Touched his guitar.