"Some people try to tell me that science will never answer the big questions we have in life. To them I say: baloney! The real problem is your questions aren't big enough."

-- Phil Plait

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“Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.”
“They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.”
“George Rochberg once said that 'to be a composer, you need to have fire in the belly, fire in the brain, but most importantly, an iron stomach.' I feel this is for the most part true, and hope I might convey something of it to younger composers.”
“O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden's hold,--a thing soon done, for nature framed all women to be won.”

Source : Torquato Tasso “Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem”, Library of Alexandria
“Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder.”
“A prayer is directed by a supplicant toward someone/something powerful who can grant a favor, and by putting daughters in that position, you place them in the position of power.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the linguistic ether singing a Siren song that's designed to crash the unsuspecting against the jagged rocks of pedantry.”
“If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.”

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