"Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due."

-- James Cook

#Musician Quotes #Composer Quotes #Gifted Quotes

“There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.”
“Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.”
“Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable....”
“The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.”

Source : Transcript of Mahmoud Abbas Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.haaretz.com. September 23, 2011.
“I was doing my music because it was fun, and I always was like, "If it becomes a business, or it becomes too demanding, or if people try to tell me what to do or control what I'm doing, I won't do it."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.”
“It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?”

Source : Jane Green (2000). “Bookends”, p.185, Penguin UK
“The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.”

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