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“I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.”

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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that…

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It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room…

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So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art.…

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“...the important questions are answered by not liking only but disliking and accepting equally what one likes and dislikes. Otherwise there is no access…

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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

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To see, one must go beyond the imiagination and for that one must stand absolutely still as though at the center of a leap.

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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

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Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake…

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There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

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People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

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Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth…

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It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.

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One lesson to learn is that the press and the broadcasters are not neutral. And it seems we have to learn it each time…

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God's Word does provide life lessons to teach us how to live. And it gives us beautiful poetry that gives voice to our human…

Jennifer Rothschild

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I only started driving lessons because of comedy - before that, there's be no need. There was a bus from where I lived to…

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I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at…

Yvette Nicole Brown

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I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I was a…

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He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of…

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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As a scientist, objectivity is one of my most deeply held values. If we could just try harder, I once thought, surely we could…

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“Memories of past. Heartaches of old. Courage of brass. Lessons of gold.”

Richelle E. Goodrich

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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

Henry Ward Beecher

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