"I've always been a composer dependent on texts."

-- David Del Tredici

#Composer Quotes

“I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.11, Cambridge University Press
“Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.”
“Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.”
“When I came back I had to realize that IC was not in a very good shape - all the much money that we had because of the huge Ideal success, was gone. I was very upset.”
“It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.”
“The same Holy Spirit who implants faith within a life implants the boldness to verbalize that faith.”
“The notion of a healthy society, of capable people who are able to enjoy life, arose in the liberal, middle-class, leftist and non-religious segments of society. The euthanasia idea came from neither the radical right-wing nor the conservative corner. It was and remains part of the modern age and progressive thought.”
“One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.”

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