Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.

Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Music is what feelings sound like.

Music is what feelings sound like.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years read more

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Each song, you're telling a story and acting.

Each song, you're telling a story and acting.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies read more

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's read more

There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.