The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.
Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.
The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.
"Have you heard any Stockhausen?" Beecham was asked. "No, but I believe I have stepped in some. "
I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance.
I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time.
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.
The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with more new ideas brought in - a trial and error system.
"Boys," Annabeth interrupted, "I'm sure you both would've been wonderful at killing each other. But right now you need some rest. "