"Music is the art... which most completely..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.”

“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”

“Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.”

“Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!”

“Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.”

“Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.”

“What can be explained is not poetry.”

“Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.”