“We are trying to get a fingerprint of the emotional landscape of the music as it is transmitted from the conductor's baton to the musicians' fingers to the hearts and minds of the audience.”
Daniel Levitin
“Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information -- hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.”
Walter Benjamin
“Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.”
Margaret Culkin Banning
“You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.”
Nancy Banks Smith
“Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium, it is not a substitute for print.”
Walter Cronkite
“I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.”
William Blake
“To hear the latest Pole / transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.”
T.S. Eliot
