"I actually prefer to hear small groups of instruments. Orchestras seem to lack a texture for me, or variety of texture. There's only about ten things you can do with one note in a string section. But a lone violin is continuously changing textures."

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Stephin Merritt

#Lone Quotes #Variety Quotes

“Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T.”

Source : "The Do's and Don't's of Collecting High-End Watches" by Robert Frank, www.cnbc.com. December 12, 2012.
“If I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead. And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.'”
“After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.”
“Were it not for the relationship I have with Christ, the world surely would have run me down by now....Certainly I'll never find the level of compassion Christ carried, but trying to learn that compassion is enough to carry me through.”
“Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.”
“I hate a conscience. It's always making you feel low down and disreputable. I don't believe I will say anything to my children about one, and let them have some peace.”

Source : Kate Langley Bosher (2012). “Mary Cary "Frequently Martha”, p.97, tredition
“I'm very concerned with the healing process of a song and music in general. I think that's why I make music - it heals me and I'm extremely sensitive to people who tell me that this or that song made them feel better or helped them go through a difficult time in their life. I think that music is almost medicine. I don't know if that's my philosophy, but that's my thought process.”
“It is right, therefore, that we not just be called Christians, but that we actually be Christians.”

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