"Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art."

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Source : Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.32

Robert Schumann

#Art Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes

“Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.”
“Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.”
“I really pulled from that repertoire that Billie Holiday was singing, and the way she sang it. It's sort of this beautiful, not really midpoint, but a period of her career where she really still had her voice. She had that deep wisdom that we've come to associate her with. To me, that's her at the height of her powers.”

Source : Source: revive-music.com
“The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could â€˜most talentâ€™ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.”
“One person's ceiling is another person's floor.”
“I started writing hits the day I sold my piano.”

Source : Contemporary Musicians Vol. 14, May 1995.
“The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it”
“I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack”

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