Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.

Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.