A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

- Russell Sherman

To master the piano is to master the universe.

- Russell Sherman

Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical not…

- Russell Sherman

The context for music is varied and profound. If their fantasy is to be awakened-so that their sounds may be incisive or ravishing-then the menagerie…

- Russell Sherman

The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny, and there…

- Russell Sherman

When we play music we describe the echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer's imagination, whic…

- Russell Sherman

For time not only moves inexorable forward, as the underlying grid to our personal chronicle, but is manipulated by our psychic needs and natures int…

- Russell Sherman

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the han…

- Russell Sherman

As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they wer…

- Russell Sherman