Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses. — Alexander Scriabin Copy Share Image
Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we… — Andrew Sarris Copy Share Image
Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
The other option we have are medication treatments. So you'll have the treatments such as Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata, and we'll also have… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I think anybody who's willing to really sink their teeth into a work like the Hammerklavier, which is a very interesting, different… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes. — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more.… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
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