"Very often, when you're listening to a piece for the first time, you're listening through a model of other pieces that you know. At a certain point, a piece becomes idiosyncratic and you start to understand it on its own terms."

-- Paul Lansky

#Listening Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I don't think you can erase memory, you can just bury it, and when we're ready to process old traumas they can reveal themselves in unique ways.”

Source : Source: www.nerdprobs.com
“I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.”

Source : Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”
“It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need.”
“Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.”
“Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, they make bad movie after bad movie.”

Source : "Actors pay a big price" By Martine Costello, www.cnn.com. March 22, 2001.
“I Don't Try to Guess What a Million People Will Like. It's Hard Enough to Know What I Like.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.”
“In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.”

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