Russell Sherman Quotes
To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.
Through music time is tamed, although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission.
The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.
A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.
The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.
Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.
The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny, and therefore in the range of its interpretations.
