Beware of entrance to a quarrel . . . –Shakespeare, Hamlet
All the world’s a stage,/ and all the men and women merely players./ The have their exits and their entrances . . . –Shakespeare, As You Like It
Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life . . . the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. –Ludwig van Beethoven