The Hindu, Magazine section, October 19, 2008. http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/10/19/stories/2008101950060200.htm
“Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.”
On his spiritual view of music.
New York Times interview (1972)
“The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.”
Pt. 2, ch. 20
Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system — that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.
“I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XXIX Precepts of the Painter
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
Six String Orchestra
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)
