Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.

Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.

Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.