"[A]ny musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch."

-- Pierre Boulez

#Musician Quotes #Needs Quotes #Useless Quotes

“I think we need an American jobs agenda for the climate challenge which means American renewable grid, more renewable energy.”
“When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness ... it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.”
“I knÐ¾w you're Belgian, that's whÐµrÐµ thÐ¾sÐµ waffles ÑÐ¾mÐµ frÐ¾m”
“The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on 'Iron Chef' for several years, is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, but I think now I'm doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time.”
“We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.”
“O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.”
“For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life is not counted by the clock and where the talented may be sure they will be ignored until that time, if it ever comes, when their gifts are viable enough to be set free and survive in the world.”

Source : Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.67, Vintage
“The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit.”

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