I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOut of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBut the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson