“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.” (Tahereh Mafi)

"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” (Immanuel Kant)

“Your tone sets the tone.”
(Sarah Urist Green)

“Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.” (N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season)

“Because true magic is found in the depth of one's soul.” (Avijeet Das)

“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.” (Rainer Maria Rilke)

“Birds are beautiful. After a lifetime of study I still love to look at them and listen to them, even the common species.” (Kenn Kaufman)

“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.” (Hermann Hesse)

“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.” (Egon Schiele)

"The priority is connecting." (Rachel Podger)

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” (Aldous Huxley)

“Your hair is winter fire,
January embers.
My heart burns there, too.”
(Stephen King)

“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.” (Kahlil Gibran Jr.)

"Gleiche Zaubermacht übt Schönheit wie Musik, die uns so oft von unbekannten Paradiesen hehres Geheimnis zu enthüllen scheint." (Giacomo Leopardi)

“Leben heißt nicht hundert Jahre alt werden, Leben heißt fühlen und fühlen machen, daß man da sey, durch Genuß, den man nimmt, und mit sich wiedergiebt.”
(Clemens Brentano)

“It's your heart. No one else gets a say in that.” (Jay Asher, What Light)

“Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” (Sydney Harris)

“Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune.” (Deepak Chopra)

“It’s just old pop music.” (Barokksolistene)

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” (Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol)

“True siblings are bound together by far more essential things than blood, while more times than many blood isn't thicker than water.” (Constantina Maud, Hydranos)

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” (Henry David Thoreau)

“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.” (Kahlil Gibran Jr.)

“Your desire to make art - beautiful or meaningful or emotive art - is integral to your sense of who you are.” (David Bayles and Ted Orland)

“What is your heart worth to you? The answer is ‘everything’. Our hearts are worth the World.” (Alaric Hutchinson)

Was zieht mir das Herz so?
Was zieht mich hinaus?
Und windet und schraubt mich
Aus Zimmer und Haus?
Wie dort sich die Wolken
Um Felsen verziehn!
Da möcht ich hinüber,
Da möcht ich wohl hin!

Nun wiegt sich der Raben
Geselliger Flug;
Ich mische mich drunter
Und folge dem Zug.
Und Berg und Gemäuer
Umfittichen wir;
Sie weilet da drunten;
Ich spähe nach ihr.

Da kommt sie und wandelt;
Ich eile sobald,
Ein singender Vogel,
Zum buschigen Wald.
Sie weilet und horchet
Und lächelt mit sich:
»Er singet so lieblich
Und singt es an mich.«

Die scheidende Sonne
Verguldet die Höhn;
Die sinnende Schöne,
Sie läßt es geschehn.
Sie wandelt am Bache
Die Wiesen entlang,
Und finster und finstrer
Umschlingt sich der Gang;

Auf einmal erschein ich,
Ein blinkender Stern.
»Was glänzet da droben,
So nah und so fern?«
Und hast du mit Staunen
Das Leuchten erblickt;
Ich lieg dir zu Füßen,
Da bin ich beglückt!

(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

“You are more powerful when you’re sensual than when you’re factual. Wise women know how to make sensuality their power base.” (Lebo Grand)

“One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art.” (Harley King)

Portraits of baroque violinist Bjarte Eike in Oslo, Norway.

Wiener Blond & das Original Wiener Salonensemble