Category: Music Quotes

To keep young,  everyday read a poem, hear a choice piece of music, view a fine painting, and, if possible, do a good action.  Man’s highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances, and as little…

For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and I play two preludes and fugues of…

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus…