“If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.” Erich von Stroheim

“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems” Paul Erdos

“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