Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the material and the spiritual, the thinglike and its transcendence in thought. A culture that is merely sensuous and… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
The soul lives forever by giving, not receiving. This is the grand paradox. You get most by giving most. Conversely, by receiving much you… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing in all Nature is more certain than the fact that no single thing or event can stand alone. It is attached to all… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the material and… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is a paradox, then, that while we insist on the sovereignty of individual choice in all that we do and buy as fundamental to our idea of democracy, we have all but expunged the claims of judgment as such. It is symptomatic of our politically correct sensitivities that the idea of choice has almost replaced the idea of discrimination,… — Julian Johnson Copy Share
Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
