When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer... it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.

Melody is the essence of music.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

-- Born in 1685 in Eisenach

Illness, insanity, and death were the dark angels that kept watch over my cradle.

-- Edvard Munch

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.

-- Georgia O'Keeffe

Music is the silence between the notes.

-- Born in France in 1862, Claude Debussy opened new frontiers of harmony and timbre that reshaped Western music. Works like Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, La mer, and his Preludes for piano freed French music from German Romantic dominance and profoundly influenced twentieth-century composers. His sole completed opera, Pelleas et Melisande, offered a radical alternative to Wagnerian music drama. Though he rejected the label, he

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

-- Born in France in 1862, Claude Debussy opened new frontiers of harmony and timbre that reshaped Western music. Works like Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, La mer, and his Preludes for piano freed French music from German Romantic dominance and profoundly influenced twentieth-century composers. His sole completed opera, Pelleas et Melisande, offered a radical alternative to Wagnerian music drama. Though he rejected the label, he