"Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of time into pure continuance; it is certain never to be repeated; like the existence of dayflies and other such short-lived creatures, beauty is a perfect abstraction and creation of life itself. Nothing is so similar to life as music."

-- Yukio Mishima

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“Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's been so many who didn't understand so give me all the love I see in your timid eyes but give it gently Please.”

Source : Rod McKuen (1970). “Listen to the Warm”
“Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.”
“Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.”
“The man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it. His vacant or fasting mind is neither doing anything nor not doing anything. He is outside of volition, neither this nor that. He is everything and nothing.”
“I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.”

Source : "Q+A: Andy Richter's Secret to Happiness". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. March 13, 2012.
“Men don't understand anything about women and women understand nothing about men. And it's better that way.”
“Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.”
“An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents...”

Source : Alec Guinness (1986). “Blessings in Disguise”, New York : Knopf

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