Russell Sherman

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

— Russell Sherman

As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to…

— Russell Sherman

The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.

— Russell Sherman

Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical…

— Russell Sherman

The context for music is varied and profound. If their fantasy is to be awakened-so that their sounds may be incisive or…

— Russell Sherman

Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence…

— Russell Sherman

Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through…

— Russell Sherman

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's…

— Russell Sherman

Through music time is tamed, although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission.

— Russell Sherman

For time not only moves inexorable forward, as the underlying grid to our personal chronicle, but is manipulated by our psychic needs…

— Russell Sherman

The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny,…

— Russell Sherman

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

— Russell Sherman

The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a…

— Russell Sherman

When we play music we describe the echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer's…

— Russell Sherman

To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano…

— Russell Sherman

As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as…

— Russell Sherman

To master the piano is to master the universe.

— Russell Sherman

“When Beethoven made sharp response to a letter from his brother Karl, who embellished his signature with the phrase “land-owner,” the composer…

— Russell Sherman