Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'What force is more potent than love?' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Edwin Hubble: 'The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Edwin Hubble: 'The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Edwin Hubble: 'Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Carl Sagan: 'I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Carl Sagan: 'For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Edwin Hubble: 'The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Edwin Hubble: 'The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Edwin Hubble: 'Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Carl Sagan: 'I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Carl Sagan: 'For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.' Read More