"Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By..."

-- Randall Jarrell

#Song Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Rock And Roll Quotes

“Back then and later on when I was in NEU! and Harmonia I was too much preoccupied with my own music to be aware of the German music scene, let alone following it actively. But changes which were happening with S.o.S. (namely the development of individual ideas and the effort to distinguish from the Anglo- American rock patterns) also helped me recognize other musicians within my immediate vicinity.”
“There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.”
“Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life.”

Source : Zhi Gang Sha (2012). “The Power of Soul”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
“But if we play it safe, the problem is that we may be losing out, and I believe we are.”
“My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.”
“The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.”
“I felt like any individual's recovery was more important than the film I was making. And I actually felt that my presence was a form of witness that communicated to the people I was following that their lives mattered.”
“In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.108, tredition

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