"I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the '70s that pieces I wrote would sound great the first time I listened to them and then on repeated hearings they sounded older and older until what seemed exciting and vibrant on first listening became stale."

-- Paul Lansky

#Thinking Quotes #Listening Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“Itâ€™s only human to have low moments in life because if you donâ€™t, then you wonâ€™t feel the high, exciting times.”
“I want every movie to be like a big family and a great adventure.”
“It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years and over miles of land cutting across national boundaries and vast expanses of sea. Yet it is vital to do just that to fully comprehend the longevity as well as the widespread power and influence this religion once held.”
“Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.”
“They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.”
“I'm as pro-life as a person gets. You're not going to have a truce.”
“Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult”
“I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.”

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