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U.S. editor of Wine Spectator

Everything in moderation--including moderation.

(1916—1999)

U.S. economist

If it might break, don't go near it.

Where's the 'any' key?

Wow! They've got the Internet on computers now!

(1779—1849)

English humorist

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.