“The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt – they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.” Sergei Rachmaninov

“Music is the universal language of mankind.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.” Bill Watterson