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.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt read more

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn read more

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare.

Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare.

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. read more

From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.