"It is not a profession to be a pianist and musician. It is a philosophy, a conception of life that cannot be based on good intentions or natural talent. First and foremost there must be a spirit of sacrifice."

-- Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

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“Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others have moved in. With the need for power, where was he to go? So he chose to be a conductor. He is a wonderful musician, a wonderful intelligence. It's a pity there is no humanity there. Does he have sex? I think not. When men have no sex, they go after power in this big, obsessive way.”
“The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.”
“Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.”

Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
“A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.”

Source : "Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New". Book by Marie France Pochna (p. 170), 1996.
“The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”
“Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.”
“What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.”
“Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.”

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