I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.
By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring throughout the cosmos. Tracing it to such exalted origins, I begin to understand more deeply the essence of our art and its elemental power over the human soul. Man, being a creature of Nature and subject to the cosmic influences that inform all earthly beings, must needs have been under the sway of that music from his earliest days; his organism reverberated with its vibrations and received it's rhythmic impulses.
It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.
Our music, whose eternal being is forever bound up in its temporal sounds, is not merely an art, enriching beyond measure our cultural life, but also a message from higher worlds, raising and urging us on by it's reminders of our own eternal origins.
The domain of rhythm extends from the spiritual to the carnal.
The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by time.
For some reason, when you become a support to others, you become bigger than you are.
Puerto Rico is not a full part of the United States. We're a territory or a colonial territory.
Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.
The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.