https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:18:59 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/fry-roger/27432/ https://wist.info/fry-roger/27432/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2014 13:44:18 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27432 Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

Roger Fry (1866-1934) English artist and art critic
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Quoted in Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, ch. 11 (1940). ]]> https://wist.info/fry-roger/27432/feed/ 1 27432 https://wist.info/heifetz-jascha/23326/ https://wist.info/heifetz-jascha/23326/#respond Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:53:23 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=23326 You can “just listen” to the Brahms violin concerto and enjoy it keenly. But if you read about Brahms’ life, you appreciate it more. And, if you’ve listened to recordings of it, you will appreciate it ten times as much.

Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) Lithuanian-American violinist
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Quoted on his official web page. ]]> https://wist.info/heifetz-jascha/23326/feed/ 0 23326