"The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum."

-- Walter Bagehot

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Eye Quotes

“How ironic for peacemaking efforts to discover that hatred is stronger for many than love; that the longing to achieve power through military victories makes so many men lose their reason, forget all shame, and betray history.”
“[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.”
“The idea is distributed in space. It isn't only in one part; one part can't express the idea any longer, only the union of parts can completely express the idea. The idea found it necessary to be presented by several parts. After that, there was a rapid flowering of polyphony.”

Source : Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp
“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”
“I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.”
“The only single guy driving a minivan is a guy whose mother bought the van 16 years ago...”
“Never trample on any soul though it may be lying in the veriest mire; for that last spark of self-respect is its only hope, its only chance; the last seed of a new and better life: the voice of God that whispers to it: "You are not what you ought to be, and you are not what you can be. You are still God's child, still an immortal soul. You may rise yet. and fight a good fight yet, and be a man once more, after the likeness of God who made you, and Christ who died for you!”
“I've reached a certain age where I love to work. I could just live here [at the studio].”

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