"Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas."

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Source : 1930 'The Composer in the Machine Age'.

George Gershwin

#Ideas Quotes #Use Quotes #Strange Quotes

“Doubt is a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep his promises. Faith is an active confidence that God's promises are always true.”

Source : James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.63, Moody Publishers
“Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.”
“The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all by living. For until we have begun to live our prudence has no material to work on. And until we have begun to fail we have no way of working out our success.”
“I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.”
“[Commuting by bicycle is] an absolutely essential part of my day. It's mind-clearing, invigorating. I get to go out and pedal through the countryside in the early morning hours, and see life come back and rejuvenate every day as the sun is coming out.”
“The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.”
“Prayerlessness is sin.”
“A wedding is at once a crowded place and a private room, packed with trusts and empty of all but the heart's letters which one other heart may read and decipher.”

Source : Mark McMorris (2003). “The Blaze of the Poui: Poems”, p.67, University of Georgia Press

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