A strong foundation at home sets you up for a strong foundation at work.
The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.
If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.
I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.
The melody is generally what the piece is all about.
You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
But still, like air, I'll rise
It seemed to me that one should make an effort to banish artificial classifications from chemistry and begin to assign to each element the place it must occupy in the natural order by comparing it in succession to others.
Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.
With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he's going to do something, he gets on it, does it.