New Orts #6

A good pun is its own reword.

Any excess--to have drunk too much water, even, the day before-- is fatal to the morning's clarity; but in health the sound of a cow-bell is celestial music.
           -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-62)

Thoreau was a great musician, not because he played the flute but because he did not have to go to Boston to hear "the Symphony". The rhythm of his prose, were there nothing else, would determine his value as a composer.
            -- Charles Ives (1874-1954)

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
          -- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

This will be our reply to violence: To make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
         -- Leonard Bernstein (1918-90, in the wake of the Kennedy assassination, November 1963)

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