Taruskin Music Quotes & Sayings

The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease. — Vitruvius

I have to get them out. It's the only way I know how to do it. Ever since I was a little boy, I've written things down. Thoughts, dreams, stories, poems, all of it written down, pounded out on old typewriters or scribbled here or there on pads and scraps of paper, like once I'd written it down I'd be free of it somehow. — Greg F. Gifune

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me. — Stanley Fish

The suffering of this life not only can make our temperament more like the Divine Personality of Jesus, but it detaches us from this world. This Divine preparation opens our souls to the working and pruning of the Father. — Mother Angelica

His hands as he worked were deft and sure, but so gentle
he was being careful not to hurt me any more than he had to. I sat very still, hardly daring to move.
I was in love with him.
The knowledge swept through me, truer than anything I'd ever known. Oh, my God, I was in love with him. — L.A. Weatherly

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on. — Van Morrison

Every day is a good day if we are reading a picture book. — Vivian Kirkfield

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. — Tom Robbins

It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war. — Denis Johnson

It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The '40s were quite austere and super glamorous. — Paul Weller