A Musical Audience Is At Best Uninspiring,

A Musical Audience Is At Best Uninspiring, At Worst Definitely Drab. ... Respectability Hangs Like A Pall Over The Orchestra And The Boxes; A Sort Of Sterile Sobriety Ill-fitted To The Passionate Geometry Of Music.

Surely The Hold Of Great Music On The Listener Is Precisely This: That The Listener Is Made Whole; And At The Same Time Part Of An Image Of Infinite Grace And Grandeur Which Is Creation.

The Great Omission In American Life Is Solitude; Not Loneliness, For This Is An Alienation That Thrives Most In The Midst Of Crowds, But That Zone Of Time And Space, Free From The Outside Pressures, Which Is The Incubator Of The Spirit.

In Our Society Those Who Are In Reality Superior In Intelligence Can Be Accepted By Their Fellows Only If They Pretend They Are Not.

Art Can Excite, Titillate, Please, Entertain, And Sometimes Shock; But Its Ultimate Function Is To Ennoble.