“The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.”― Artur Schnabel ...

“God worked six days, and rested on the seventh: Madrileños rest the six, and on the seventh... go to the bullfight.” - H O’Shea   Welc...

“The centre of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilisation.” ...

“The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its...

“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to lov...

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles Welcome to t...

“I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.” - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)   I am...

“There us a kind of flame in Crete – let us call it ‘soul’ – something more powerful than either life or death. There is pride, obstinacy...

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” - Frank Lloyd Wright Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Russian: Исаа́к...

“What really counts isn’t whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: It’s your mindset.” - Simon Rattle   Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli...

“To escape and sit quietly on the beach – that’s my idea of paradise.” - Emilia Wickstead   Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me...

“April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances” ― Matsuo Bashō   Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (c.1656 – Augu...

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” - Nelson Mandela...

“A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom o...

“A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.” - Omar Khayyam We have a house guest for Easter and amongst the things we had to eat were t...

“I fall asleep thinking there is no better elixir than travel. Old things always bored me, boredom always scared me, while travel - trave...

“A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.” - Herb Caen   Welcome ...