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I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself...
Let your mind alone, and see what happens.
Source: On writing; in Christian Science...
I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in...
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a...
Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing...
If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
Source: In...
I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.
Source: On partnership with Richard...
What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he...
The number of people that will not go to a show they don't want to see is unlimited.
We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are...
Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit...
Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social...
[I am] a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what...
One face to the world, another at home makes for misery.
Source: In The New...
When I was young, I kissed my first woman, and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I have never had time for...
Can't you read? The score demands con amore, and what are you doing? You are playing it like married...
God tells me how the music should sound, but you, stand in the way.
Source: To a...
If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.
After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you - not a one of you -...