“Music is queer. Its power seems unrelated to the other affections of man, so that a person who is elsewise perfectly commonplace may have for it an extreme and delicate sensitiveness.”
W. Somerset Maugham, The Narrow Corner
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
“Music is queer. Its power seems unrelated to the other affections of man, so that a person who is elsewise perfectly commonplace may have for it an extreme and delicate sensitiveness.”
W. Somerset Maugham, The Narrow Corner
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