Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse
Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.
I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul
The better strategy is to focus on strengths and surround yourself with people who can complement your skills. However, you have to first do the analysis.
The extra daily social time of 1. 7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.
I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis lazuli, to sapphires and aquamarines; to cobalt skies and blue-black seas; Moslem tiles - and to a blue flower whether or not it has any other merit.
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.