Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money.

The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

I know nothing at all about music.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow