“When Beethoven made sharp response to a letter from his brother Karl, who embellished his signature with the phrase “land-owner,” the composer added “brain-owner” to his own autograph.” — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken. — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to survive? Or… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key. — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical notes must… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
The context for music is varied and profound. If their fantasy is to be awakened-so that their sounds may be incisive or ravishing-then the… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence is both… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song. — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Through music time is tamed, although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission. — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
For time not only moves inexorable forward, as the underlying grid to our personal chronicle, but is manipulated by our psychic needs and natures… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny, and therefore… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art. — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
