"Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back."

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Source : 1992 English Music, ch.19.

Peter Ackroyd

#Past Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Needs Quotes

“The characteristics of a good musician can be summarized as follows: 1. A well-trained ear. 2. A well-trained intelligence. 3. A well-trained heart. 4. A well-trained hand. All four must develop together, in constant equilibrium. As soon as one lags behind or rushes ahead, there is something wrong. So far most of you have met only the requirement of the fourth point: the training of your fingers has left the rest far behind. You would have achieved the same results more quickly and easily, however, if your training in the other three had kept pace.”
“You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.”
“I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.”
“All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.”
“And Christ was born into the world as the literal Son of this Holy Being; he was born in the same personal, real, and literal sense that any mortal son is born to a mortal father. There is nothing figurative about his paternity; he was begotten, conceived and born in the normal and natural course of events, for he is the Son of God, and that designation means what it says.”
“Since the gangsters are glamorized, by extension the women they sleep with are also necessarily glamorous.”
“Come spend the night inside my sugar walls.”

Source : Song: Sugar Walls, Album: A Private Heaven
“I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.”

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