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“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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a…

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Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

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A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

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