"Music is the best means we have of digesting time."

-- W. H. Auden

#Music Quotes #Art Quotes #Philosophy Quotes

“Just reading that - just reading that a person can be black and still perform in blackface, making fun of black people for a living, and at the same time be a genius and be an incredible entertainer and at the same time be extremely conflicted and feel like - just feel terrible for doing that, essentially, which is what Bert Williams felt, from what I gather, from what I read - all of that just made - was so incredible to me.”

Source : "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2016.
“A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.”
“Each of us is born into our own mysteries...but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!”
“The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity.”

Source : "Artists on Art, from the XIV to the XX Century: 100 Illustrations". Book by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, Pantheon books, 1947.
“Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here”
“Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”
“Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.”
“Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge”

Source : Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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