"My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor."

-- Gene Wilder

#Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn't even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman's magazine, I never thought of that. I didn't want that.”
“In nature there are few sharp lines”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1968). “Selected poems”
“When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would continue with our lives as in the past, but as good neighbors.”
“The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.”
“Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.”
“He that lives in love lives in God.”
“I've always liked simplicity.”
“I'm always producing with the idea that the music is representing one person. That could play a factor in the intimacy of it. I'm always producing for that one person, never for a group of people - especially if it's non-danceable. I'm always thinking that one person's going to listen to this and that person might want to feel a certain way at a certain time. That can be out in space, it can be at the bus stop, it can be laying in bed listening to music. I look at it as if I'm whispering in someone's ear, basically.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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