"The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day."

“And Watford acknowledge the support of the crowd, indeed of the crowd that supported them”

“Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, my world expanded by a few freeing degrees.”

“The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.”

“You've gotta be slightly stupid.”

“Pride is the switch that turns off priesthood power. Humility is a switch that turns it on . . . . Some suppose that humility is about beating ourselves up. Humility does not mean convincing ourselves that we are worthless, meaningless, or of little value. Nor does it mean denying or withholding the talents God has given us. We don't discover humility by thinking less of ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves. It comes as we go about our work with an attitude of serving God and our fellowman.”

“Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.”

“In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.”

Source : "Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening". Book by Joseph Machlis, 1955.

“Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.”