"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."

-- Harrison Birtwistle

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“Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.”

Source : Oliver Sacks (2008). “Musicophilia”, p.232, Vintage
“Alone, i am nothing. i have nothing.we have power.but we will never know it,we will never see it work.unless we come together to make it work.”

Source : Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.87, Heinemann
“Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.”
“The way I would characterize what you said about me is I do try to say what I think as clearly as I can without first thinking, "Uh-oh, which way is the wind blowing and are people going to like this?"”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!”

Source : "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, September 19, 2000.
“Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause brought confidence then just as it inspires reverence now.”
“If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (1987). “What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy”, p.82, Oxford University Press
“The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.”

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