David Dunlap

“My body might be ill, I granted, but the paper worlds I had visited in my life remained vast and memorable. No matter what happened to me, no matter how the months ahead would shear me, a thousand books waited to rescue me, the simple flying carpet of black print on white pages a friend as trusted as any I had ever encountered.”
― Joseph Monninger, Goodbye to Clocks Ticking: How We Live While Dying

“Haydn was quite simply the greatest variation writer who ever lived.”
― David Hurwitz, Exploring Haydn: A Listener's Guide to Music's Boldest Innovator

“I have given it some thought, and what I think is this: Guarding your heart because it has been broken is not una estupidez.”
― Venessa Vida Kelley, When the Tides Held the Moon

“It's just one of those remarkable historical ironies that Haydn, superbly trained as a singer in the St. Stephens cathedral choir of Vienna, followed by several more years as apprentice/assistant to the renowned Italian singing teacher Porpora, ultimately became famous as a composer of instrumental music, whereas Mozart, the great piano virtuoso of his age, wrote the first important operas in the modern repertoire and is arguably most highly acclaimed as a writer for the voice.”
― David Hurwitz, Exploring Haydn: A Listener's Guide to Music's Boldest Innovator