"In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz."

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Source : Letter to Vladimir Stassov on October 18, 1872. "Moussorgsky". Book by Oskar von Riesemann, translated by Paul England, p. 107, 1929.

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

#Thinker Quotes #Rough Quotes

“For, when the credit of a country is in any degree questionable, it never fails to give on extravagant premium, in one shape or another, upon all the loans it has occasion to make. Nor does the evil end here; the same disadvantage must be sustained upon whatever is to be bought on terms of future payment. From this constant necessity of borrowing and buying dear, it is easy to conceive how immensely the expenses of a nation, in a course of time, will be augmented by an unsound state of the public credit.”
“I was very vocal about how I wanted to be portrayed on the show, and how I wanted the stage setup to be.”
“The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.”
“Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.”

Source : John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.9, Shambhala Publications
“Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat.”
“Canadian is both harder and easier to explain. Nobody knows what it is even supposed to be, let far-out-alone what it actually is.”

Source : Tesseract Books, Judith Merril (1988). “Tesseracts”
“When I was younger, I did dark movies. It was a reflection of what I saw around me.”

Source : Source: variety.com
“Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily transforms them into a special series of moments held together by a major emotion.”

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