"The mind has so many pictures Why can't I sleep with my eyes open? The mind has so many memories Can you remember what it looks like when I cry? I'm trying, trying to tell you All that I can in a sweet and velvet tongue But no words ever could sell you Sell you on me after all that I have done."

-- Rufus Wainwright

#Sweet Quotes #Memories Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.”

Source : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, Hogarth Press edition, "Toute réaction est vraie", p. 91, 1985.
“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”
“Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful teaching studio; wrote thousands of letters; traveled widely; attended the theater religiously; played cards, billiards, and bocce; and rode horseback for exercise. Not bad for someone portrayed as a giggling idiot in the movies.”
“I resent Washington telling states, or the residents of those states, what to do and what to think.”

Source : "As GOP Races On, Puerto Rico Could Be Battleground". 'NPR News" with Tom Gjelten, www.npr.org. February 28, 2012.
“It is a curious fact that personal possessions take on fictitious values and exceptional charms when the owner, no matter how generous, is faced with giving them away or even selling them (which usually amounts to the same thing).”
“A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.”
“Hookers do tricks, magicians make magic.”
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.”

Source : "Confessions of an Advertising Man". Book by David Ogilvy, Chapter 3, 1963.

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