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"The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline, but is, rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity."
~Glenn Gould

"I'm always interested in learning about something through the eyes of someone who understands it and loves it, because I've always had the motto in my life that anyone who liked something knew more about it than one who didn't." ~Yehudi Menuhin

"There are those who have insisted that art is superfluous to life, and again those others who contend that life has no meaning without art. My view is that life is art, and that living is in fact the greatest and most difficult of arts."
-Yehudi Menuhin

"The most impressive thing about man, perhaps the one thing that excuses him of all his idiocy and brutality, is the fact that he has invented the concept of that which does not exist."
~Glenn Gould


Some favorite composers:
Bach
Haydn
Schoenberg
Webern
Carter