As the longfingered sun
reaches out to touch
a cloistered trillium
or a lake trembles in
the light of read more

As the longfingered sun
reaches out to touch
a cloistered trillium
or a lake trembles in
the light of moon and stars
so can a poet's long rainbow
of words
play our heartstrings from afar.

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt read more

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly read more

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each read more

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?