"My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?"

-- Paul Hindemith

#Masters Quotes

“Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.”
“One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.”

Source : Thomas De Witt Talmage (1896). “The Earth Girdled: The World as Seen To-day”
“I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.”

Source : Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books
“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.”
“I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.”
“Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.”
“Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.”
“He is always a slave who cannot live on little.”

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