"The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itselfâ€¦Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel."

-- George Gershwin

#Inspiration Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Doe Quotes

“The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.”
“I want everybody to travel, to travel and not be afraid.”
“However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.”

Source : "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 195), 1979.
“When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.”
“I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.”
“Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.”
“Jason patted me on the back. â€œTomorrow night we'll take you out chasing deer.â€ â€œI thought you'd chase cars,â€ I said. He grinned. â€œWhat fun is that? Cars don't bleed.”

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