"An audience shouldn't listen with complacency."

-- Peter Maxwell Davies

#Complacency Quotes #Audience Quotes

“I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules. The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations,”
“When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.”

Source : "Salli Richardson-Whitfield: The “I Will Follow” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. August 18, 2001.
“It, (creativity) requires an inclination to step into the unknown, as well as the ability to persist when there is no end in sight.”
“When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.”
“He taught me the difference between a good single malt whisky and a bad one.”
“I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think any of that was particularly interesting.”
“Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed”
“The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas make the hearer a musician, but good judges of music and painting may so be formed. Chess differs from these. The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.”

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