Lisa Kron famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.

  • I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise

  • The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

  • The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.

  • Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

  • I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

  • You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

  • Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

  • When one door opens, so does another one.

  • Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

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