I think [social media] is fundamentally restructuring the whole nature of information and how it's expressed in America.
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.
There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.
I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.
When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.
For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything.
The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation. We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.
I have sought you out to cure me. ' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction. ' 'I cannot cure stupidity. ' Scapegrace frowned.
The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.
You know what really made me sick? I was in Washington, D. C. at another time reading in a paper where the U. S. gives Byron de la Beckwith - the man who is charged with murdering Medgar Evers - they were giving him so much money for some land and I ask "Is this America?" We can no longer ignore the fact that America is NOT the "land of the free and the home of the brave. "