"I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Writing Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use to create a musical work. All one thing is a bore-all dissonance, or all fatuous consonance. George Winston and Guns and Roses are two sides of the same worthless coin in my esthetic world.”

Source : "Chuck Israels: Evans, Education And Philosophy". Interview with Sean Dietrich, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 27, 2010.
“The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.”
“In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few treacherous supports--the feigned compassion of one, the flattery of a second, the civilities of a third, the friendship of a fourth--they all deceive, and bring the mind back to retirement, reflection, and books.”
“People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?”
“Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.”
“There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.”

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