"I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that's the way I feel musically I have learned most in life."

-- John Towner Williams

#Player Quotes #People Quotes #Way Quotes

“We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.”

Source : "Bush: U.S. won't abandon Iraqi people", www.cnn.com. September 23, 2004.
“A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.”
“The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them while draining millions of dollars from more promising efforts to restore safety to our lives.”
“I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and begin to realize, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life.”
“I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines... the comfort and the measurements of its environment... the human measure is still the strongest factor. But coming back to the chair, there are certain motions we go through - we like to lean back, like to toss things - and if the chair's adaptable it responds and it's almost like wearing a comfortable coat; you really don't know you have it on.”
“You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.”

Source : Charles Ives (2004). “129 Songs”, p.30, A-R Editions, Inc.
“Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.”
“I think architecture has to be a gift.”

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