"Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music."

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Claude Debussy

#Airplane Quotes #Victory Quotes #Progress Quotes

“I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.' That changed my life forever!”
“A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.”
“I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.”
“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”

Source : Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.9, The Minerva Group, Inc.
“My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.”
“I see an ocean thatâ€™s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.”
“Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.”
“I like ghosts. I like friends. I like couplets. I like the idea of a mission.”

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