"It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf."

-- H. L. Mencken

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“Gone were but the Winter, Come were but the Spring, I would go to a covert Where the birds sing; Where in the whitethorn Singeth a thrush, And a robin sings In the holly-bush. Full of fresh scents Are the budding boughs Arching high over A cool green house: Full of sweet scents, And whispering air Which sayeth softly: We spread no snare; Here dwell in safety, Here dwell alone, With a clear stream And a mossy stone. Here the sun shineth Most shadily; Here is heard an echo Of the far sea, Though far off it be.”
“Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.”
“Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.”
“The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.”

Source : Claude M. Bristol (2013). “The Magic of Believing”, p.82, Courier Corporation
“We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.”
“When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want breaks our self-reference; and once that is broken, we are aware that we are a part of a larger whole. It changes everything.”
“I have come up the hard way.”
“The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.”

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