You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.

The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.

That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

Un país gana más con un año de paz que con diez de guerra.

...I'm not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can't move the world - let alone your heart..

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

We are made in the image of God, and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our mental health.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.

He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.

Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.