"There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond."

-- Philippe Djian

#Two Quotes #People Quotes #Silence Quotes

“I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.”
“As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters....What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow.”
“In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.”
“The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.”
“I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.”
“We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.”
“Every moment of living has its own logic, its own meaning.”
“When women start to bond over their sexuality, it's very similar to the way that men bond over their sexuality in sports. Men bond over their sexual prowess - their strength, their agility, their power. Women bond over their undulation, their curves, their sensuality - things that are innately feminine. Once you do that, there is no turning back.”

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