"it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a wonderful experience to touch your music and to hear it and hear it in the room with you and to say, you can't have an entire orchestra there, but you'd kind of like to have the orchestra there."

-- Tod Machover

#Silence Quotes #Musical Quotes #Important Quotes

“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
“Then he releases a dove and dies while sitting in a rain storm”
“Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?”
“The fight for survival is the fight”
“A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.”
“I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.”
“Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!”
“I've also got a kind of rule where if I don't write it down and I can still remember it it's worth remembering!”

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