Pietro Mascagni famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.
My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster
Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.
I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.
The self is the modern substitute for the soul.
Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
It isnâ€™t only art that is incompatible with happiness, itâ€™s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
Die gefÃ¤hrlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world)
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

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