"The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things theyâ€™ve developed together as a group."

-- Terry Riley

#Writing Quotes #Player Quotes #Intuition Quotes

“By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.”
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”

Source : "The Age of Louis XIV". Book by Voltaire, 1751.
“If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.”

Source : Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.87, Northwestern University Press
“Jas, you are three hundred miles away. You would have to have nunga-nungas the size of France for Jock to be able to rest his hand on them.”
“There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.”

Source : Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.110, University of Michigan Press
“It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.”
“Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared”
“A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.”

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