"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world."

-- Leonard Bernstein

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“Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.”
“Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.”
“The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.”
“Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.”

Source : Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult
“When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.”
“The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.”

Source : Osbert Sitwell (1977). “Left Hand, Right Hand!: An Autobiography”
“You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.”
“I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.”

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