"In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms."

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James Weldon Johnson

#Numbers Quotes #Good Man Quotes #Musician Quotes

“One of the biggest challenges for us is that people have different accounts. People say different things happened at different times, and when you're trying to sort through all that, how do you decide what's right?”
“Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.”
“I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.”

Source : Mizuki Nomura (2012). “Book Girl and the Famished Spirit (light novel)”, p.124, Hachette UK
“Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.”

Source : 1930 'The Composer in the Machine Age'.
“The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.”
“Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.”
“My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.”
“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.”

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