Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

Beware of losing what isn't in your head.

The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets. It's just we thought they said dead when they said bread.

As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.

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

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.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.