"O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors"

--

Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.216, Univ of California Press

Frank O'Hara

#Piano Quotes #Enormous Quotes

“As we all know, lasting relationships can't be rushed.”
“I never worry about action, but only inaction.”
“[John Musker] got me reading the mythology and we very early on we worked up a basic storyline centered around the character of Maui. He just seemed like a great character to kind of build a movie around. He's this mythic demi-god, bigger than life character. He pulled up islands with his magical fishhook. He slowed down the sun. He's Pan Pacific.”
“I don't want to tell what the songs are about for me, because then people can't decide for themselves, which is why I write; it's for you to find your own meaning in. For me it's my story, for someone else it's theirs; if I tell exactly what it means, then it's only my story.”
“The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.”
“The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.”
“I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day.”
“Love me, that's all I ask of you...”

Source : "All I Ask Of You". Song by Charles Hart, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe, September 26, 1986.

You may also like: