"You have to train your mind and your ears, but they're more like athletic skills. So, part of music you just have to learn those things or you can't practice the art."

-- Tod Machover

#Art Quotes #Practice Quotes #Skills Quotes

“I do not like to call myself a Liberal, because there is so much that is wrong with liberalism. I also do not like to call my a Conservative for exactly the same reason. The fact that the theater of conservativism today seems to be such a haven for such an abundance of small minded, non-thinking, irrationalists is however making it very difficult for me to not adopt a harder stance.”
“I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.”

Source : "I prefer birdsong to chatter". Interview with Helen Birch, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2005.
“I'm looking for Miss Right, or at least Miss Right Now”
“You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.”

Source : Michel Faber (2014). “The Book of Strange New Things”, p.447, Canongate Books
“Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her enemies spun and tossed and turned and disoriented in her wake. Sanya and I hacked our way through stunned foes, pushing and chopping with unsophisticated brutality-and that big Russian lunatic just kept laughing the whole time.”
“Troubles, they may come and go, but good times, they're the gold.”
“I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.”

Source : "The World We Want: Virtue, Vice, and the Good Citizen". Book by Mark Kingwell, 2000.
“I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.”

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