"Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft."

-- Henry Threadgill

#Music Quotes #Art Quotes #Crafts Quotes

“Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.”
“My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.”
“You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.”
“The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way moved by concepts related to the interests of the family or of society...Just when science and technology are making incredible advances in all fields, they resort to technology to suppress revolutions and ask the help of science to prevent population growth. In short, the peoples are not to make revolutions, and women are not to give birth. This sums up the philosophy of imperialism.”
“I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.”
“Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.”
“It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients.”
“For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.”

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