James S.

“If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter.”
― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters

“The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth — an open-air art, boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.”
― Claude Debussy

“Nothing [...] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.”
― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia