"Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing."

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Source : "Music and Musical Life in Soviet Russia". Book by Boris Schwarz, p. 115, 1972.

Sergei Prokofiev

#People Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Hearing Quotes

“I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. My diet was really starvation. I am not naturally that thin.”
“Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.”
“Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.”
“It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.”
“I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to do is provide people with nightmares which are really safe places to put those fears for a while because you can say afterwards that uh, that, that well it was all just make-believe anyway, so I just took my emotions for a walk.”
“Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.”

Source : Charles Horton Cooley (2015). “Life and the Student: Roadside Notes on Human Nature, Society, and Letters”, p.61, Transaction Publishers
“No matter how sick your body is, extending Love will reduce your suffering and aid in healing.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!”

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