"If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

-- Berthold Auerbach

#Dust Quotes #Practice Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I wanted to do something for the minority Muslims living in the West, especially in the UK, to bring up their morale a bit. They need to be proud of their religion”
“Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.”

Source : Steve Allen (1981). “Funny people”, Stein & Day Pub
“As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.
“I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.”

Source : "Next Factor Q&A: 'Les Misérables' Star Samantha Barks" by Kase Wickman, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2012.
“The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty, might I please introduce my daughter to you?" The queen replied, "I have come here to view the library."”
“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation”

Source : "Apocalypse Not: Here's Why You Shouldn't Worry About End Times" by Matt Ridley, www.wired.com. August 17, 2012.
“I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.”
“I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book that combined talking about the life of writing and how you can do it, how you can stand it, how you can emotionally manage it, with the choices that we all make on the page.”

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