"Open the window of your heart and let the Spirit speak"

-- Rumi

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“Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.”
“And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?”
“I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot which, however, did not hamper my rapid progress.”
“In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language - so much of one's personality and story is embedded within their speech, their rhythms, the structure of their thoughts, their use of particular diction or dialect.”
“I get no pleasure from politics; its not in my character.”
“It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.”

Source : Interview in Discover magazine Vol. 27, No. 07, July 2006.
“Good books are for consideration after, too.”
“Music, as long as it exists, will always take its departure from the major triad and return to it. The musician cannot escape it any more than the painter his primary colors or the architect his three dimensions.”

Source : Paul Hindemith (1970). “The Craft of Musical Composition: Theory. English translation by Arthur Mendel”

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