John

“Sooner or later you’ve heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. The same holds true for music. ”
― Ned Rorem, The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem 1961 1972

“What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Genius and the Goddess: a Novel

“The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values. ”
― Lawrence Durrell

“Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.”
― Aldous Huxley, Time Must Have a Stop