"I have often said to the orchestra, especially to the younger players, 'Do your best, and love what you are doing, because you are allowed to do this thing.' By this I mean, they can do what millions of people cannot do. Many people cannot think of playing music or listening to it until six o'clock in the evening. To be involved professionally in a thing as creative as this is a great privilege and we have a duty to make it in such a way that we can help bring pleasure and a sense of fulfillment to those who are not so fortunate."

-- Herbert von Karajan

#Mean Quotes #Player Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.”
“I got these questions always running through my head. So many things that I would like to understand.”

Source : "Song: "The Drug in Me Is You" ("The Drug in Me Is You")". 2011.
“I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.”
“I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!”
“The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.”

Source : "Interviewed By Harriett Lyle". Oral History Project, California Institute of Technology Archives, Pasadena, California, 1979.
“On the Day of Judgment, the servant of Allah will be given his book of deeds, where he finds rewards for things he did not do, so he asks: O My Lord, where did I get these deeds? So Allah replies to him saying: These are because of the people who backbited you and you did not know about it.”
“People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not go where they wanted. They could not cross the border to the West whenever they liked.”
“Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour”

Source : Motley and Other Poems (1918) "Fare Well"

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