"I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken."

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Source : Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.33, Penguin

Benjamin Zander

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“We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.”
“Two things that can never be contained? Velociraptors and zombies.”

Source : Kresley Cole (2010). “Demon From the Dark”, p.164, Simon and Schuster
“Life is like a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Very popular and not as bad as some would have you believe. That is, unspeakably awful but mercifully brief.”
“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
“But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.”

Source : Carole Maso (2006). “The Art Lover”, p.12, New Directions Publishing
“The big change that's happened for me in terms of my own life and how outsidership is reflected in my work is that I used to feel extraordinarily isolated in my life as I was trying to figure out who I was and how to have intimate relationships. And so my central characters also were isolated and usually in quite a bit of pain.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we mustâ€”if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdomâ€”we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.”
“As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.”

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