"Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings."

-- Jelly Roll Morton

#Music Quotes #Piano Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“As beings who cannot know the outcome of any particular action, it is difficult for us to act in a way that will be necessarily beneficial to another, or necessarily detrimental.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I've never played a character where I've had so much fun on the physical end. I don't want to say I like it too much but it's fun having a gun on you and getting to manhandle men.”
“Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.”
“Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.”

Source : Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.18, The New Press
“WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.”
“Love is scary because it pulls you in with an intense force, a supermassive black hole which looks like nothing from the outside but from the inside challenges every reasonable thing you know. You lose yourself, like I lost myself, in the warmest of annihilations.”
“Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. Iâ€™ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. Iâ€™ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Donâ€™t Mind.”
“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you donâ€™t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you donâ€™t know who your friends are, you donâ€™t know what you owe anybody, you donâ€™t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.”

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