"Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow."

-- Toru Takemitsu

#Music Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Light Quotes

“Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.”

Source : "The importance of being Childish" by Tim Teeman, The Times, December 2, 2006.
“When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.”

Source : "Senators Offer Competing Views Of Sotomayor". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. May 28, 2009.
“I'm just going to keep doing comedy because I don't know what else to do. I have no other applicable skills.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Your own feelings may be reasonable or unreasonable; how can you expect others to always be reasonable? It is useful to see things in this light and thereby correct the contradictions in your expectations for yourself and others.”
“To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.”
“You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up.”
“I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.”

Source : "Robert Moses, Master Builder, is Dead at 92" by Paul Goldberger, archive.nytimes.com. July 30, 1981.
“When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.”

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