Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers.

For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.

It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.

Oh, oh, I'm so sorry I just forgot that what I ask it can not be answered why??You don't the rights to answer it, you don't have the guts, you are afraid aren't you?

Wisdom of the Ages: "New Year's Eve" The last day you can do all the things you are resolving to give up-until you give up on your New Year's resolutions.

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.

If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.

Je vis, je meurs; je me br u" le et me noie. I live, I die; I am on fire and I drown.

There will be many failures sprinkled among the successes you enjoy.

What the polls don't tell you is, though other polls do, is that if you do a study of CEOs, top executives in corporations, they're liberal.

I am not an objective reporter. I prefer to go further, to the unstated things of our existence. What I can't understand and grasp seems to lead me.

In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'