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"To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence."
- Keith Richards
"Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it."
-Bertolt Brecht
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
-Berthold Auerbach
"The good man is the only true musician, for he gives forth perfect harmony, not with a lyre or other instrument, but with the whole of his self."
-Plato
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
-Heraclitus
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.”
- Mark Twain
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
- Aristotle (from "Nicomachean Ethics")
"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."
- George Bernard Shaw
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."
- Ralph Waldo Emmerson
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
- Mother Teresa
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. "
- Ambrose Redmoon (James Neil Hollingworth)
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death."
- Anne Frank
"I am human and let nothing human be alien to me."
- Terence
"All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
- Leo Tolstoy
"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."
- Thomas Edison
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. "
- Decca Recording Co. on not signing the Beatles, 1962
"If you grow up in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. This moment is directly connected to those imaginings. And for anybody who's on the downside of advantage, and relying purely on courage, it's possible."
-Russell Crowe, from his Oscar speech
"Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in."
-Leonard Cohen (from Anthem)
"Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It’s too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came,
and he pushed,
and they flew."
- Christopher Logue
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Meade
"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all."
- Michelangelo
"Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form, all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound. It's music."
- Michael Jackson
“Genius is eternal patience.”
- Michelangelo
"Genius is love"
- Mozart
"Teaching is Love. Learning is Love"
- Ernst Bulova
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
- Albert Camus
"The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies."
- Barbara Cook
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
- Abraham Lincoln
"So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable, and no man is useless as long as he has a friend."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born there, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size, its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter--the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these trembling cities the greatest is the last--the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh yes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company. . . "
- E.B. White (from "Here is New York")
"My notion about service is actually that kind of relationship in which you have a commitment to the other person. Now, I don't mean to the person's body or to the person's personality, or to the person's stomach, or the person's almost anything. What I mean in fact is that for me what service is about is being committed to the other being. To other person spiritually. To who the other person is. Now the problem with that is that, to the degree that you are in fact committed to the other person, you are only as valuable as the degree to which you can deal with the other person's stuff, their evidence, their manifestation, and that's what service is about. Service is knowing who the other person is and being able to tolerate giving space to their garbage. What most people do is to give to people's quality and deal with their garbage. Actually, you should do it the other way around. Deal with who they are and give space to their garbage. Keep interacting with them as if they are God. And every time you get garbage from them, give space to the garbage and go back and interact with them as if they were God."
- Werner Erhard
"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
