Love is the most melodious of all the harmonies, and we have an innate feeling for it. Woman is a delicious instrument of pleasure..., but one must know the chords, study the pose of it, the timid keyboard, the changing and capricious fingering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Semantically, taste is rich and confusing, its etymology as odd and interesting as that of "style." But while style--deriving from... the stylus or pointed rod which Roman scribes used to make marks on wax tablets--suggests activity, taste is more passive.... Etymologically, the word we use derives from the Old French, meaning touch or feel, a sense that is preserved in the current Italian word for a keyboard, tastiera.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
thinking of leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT... while she whispered a song along the keyboard to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathingLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is my wish, and may it be the wish of all, that this great building may continue to be to all your population that which it sho...uld be--an edifice opening its doors from night to night, calling your people here away from the care of business to those enjoyments, and pursuits, and entertainments which develop the souls of men, which will have power to inspire those whose lives are heavy with daily toil, and in its magnificent and enchanting presence lift them for a time out of these dull things into those higher things where men should live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »