"Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound."

-- Yo-Yo Ma

#Ideas Quotes #Sound Quotes #Clarity Quotes

“I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ ...; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of unending love.”
“I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely used to be fun. A lot of the fun has been taken away from it, I guess, because you go through so much on the field and off the field.”
“It is only by enlarging the scope of oneâ€™s tastes and oneâ€™s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among lifeâ€™s thorns”
“The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, forÂ language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collectingÂ memory”

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“Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.”
“The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.”
“It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.”
“I too have learned this in my experiences with the Spirit of God. Every situation can be redeemed and turned into exactly the preparation we require for a fullness of joy-to the extent of ourfaith in Christ's redemptive power. To that extent, the very circumstances we may have cursed will turn out to be our schooling for salvation.”

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